Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) plays include Anna Christie (1922), Desire under the Elms (1924), The Iceman Cometh (1946), and the posthumously produced autobiographical drama Long Day's Journey into Night in 1956 (written in 1940). He won the Nobel prize in 1936.

Short Biography:

O'Neill was born in New York. He had varied experience as gold prospector, sailor, and actor. Other plays include Beyond the Horizon in 1920, The Great God Brown in 1925, Strange Interlude in 1928 (which lasts five hours), Mourning Becomes Electro in 1931 (a trilogy on the theme of Orestes from Greek mythology) and A Moon for the Misbegotten in 1947 (written in 1943).

Why is Eugene O'Neill famous?

Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright, often regarded as the leading US dramatist between World Wars I and II.

Eugene O'Neill Lists

	1888 births
	1953 deaths
	American dramatists and playwrights
	American Nobel laureates
	American Roman Catholics
	Expressionist dramatists and playwrights
	American people of Irish descent
	Irish-American writers
	Modernist drama, theatre and performance
	Nobel laureates in Literature
	Olivier Award winners
	People from Connecticut
	People from Greenwich Village, New York
	People from New York City
	People with Parkinson's disease
	People from Ridgefield, Connecticut
	Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners
	Roman Catholic writers
	Tony Award winners

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Category: Writers  - ( Writers Archive)

Date Added: 25 May '12

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