W.S. Gilbert (Nov. 18, 1836 - May 29, 1911)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert began his writing career under the pseudonym "Bab," writing and illustrating a series of poems in the magazine "Fun." He later carried many of these poems and ideas over to his famous operettas, which he wrote with composer Arthur Seymour Sullivan. The two were commissioned to work together on the operettas "Thespis" and "Trial by Jury," thus beginning a productive but stormy professional relationship. Gilbert continued to write on his own up until his death in 1911, during an attempt to rescue a drowning woman.
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