ABSTRACT
Few people realize that Jack Tanner was a real person. Most recognize him as the hero of Bernard Shaw’s play Man and Superman. They therefore assume that Tanner is fiction. Not at all. He is fact. I know this to be so because Tanner’s grandson was a classmate of mine at Swarthmore College and through him I came to know the elder Tanner. Jack and his wife Ann, whom Shaw adored and immortalized in his play, emigrated to the United States in 1910 and settled in Philadelphia.
