Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill was born in 1888 in a Broadway hotel, the son of an actor who played the same role thousands of times. Expelled from Princeton after a year, he signed on as a sailor, prospected for gold in Honduras, lived in the waterfront lodgings of New York and spent nearly six months in a sanatorium, where he decided to write. He produced about fifty plays, received three Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime and the Nobel Prize in 1936, the only American dramatist to have won it. A tremor in his hands kept him from writing in his last years. He died in a Boston hotel room in 1953.

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• TheatreLong Day's Journey into NightEugene O'Neill · 1941Literature