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It recommended Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizonfor the prize, and the Pulitzer committee gave it to him. For O’Neill, it was the first of four Pulitzer Prizes. The others came in 1922 (Anna Christie), 1928 (Strange Interlude) and 1957 (Long Day’s Journey into Night). The 1920 jurors were Hamlin Garland, a New York writer and the ...
Mar 20, 2018 · March 20, 2018. Eugene O’Neill doesn’t let us hide from our demons. They are at the core of all his writing. Photo by Edward Steichen / Condé Nast / Getty. In seventh grade, my English ...
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. O’Neill was born in a Broadway hotel room in Longacre Square (now Times Square), in the Barrett Hotel, to an Irish immigrant father and a mother of Irish descent. O’Neill’s father was an actor and his mother ...
Eugene O'Neill was born in New York City on October 16, 1888, the son of James O'Neill, an actor who, like other major stars of the time, spent his life on extended tours of the country. The young O'Neill spent his infancy in hotel rooms and the wings of theatres. As he grew older, Eugene was sent to private Catholic boarding schools and to ...
Mar 27, 2006 · Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright — set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal ...
Eugene O'Neill. Writer: Long Day's Journey Into Night. Eugene O'Neill, the winner of four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature, is widely considered the greatest American playwright. No one, not Maxwell Anderson, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, nor Edward Albee, approaches O'Neill in terms of his artistic achievement or his impact on the American theater. James ...
The summer home of the Tyrones, August 1912. Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939–1941 and first published posthumously in 1956. [5] It is widely regarded as his magnum opus and one of the great American plays of the 20th century. [6] It premiered in Sweden in February 1956 ...
