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Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Sr. was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest American plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and…
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culture · American playwright (1888–1953) · playwright · screenwriter · writer · also Eugene O'Neill, Eugene O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, O'Neill
Born 16 October 1888 · Died 27 November 1953 · Q93157
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2026· 6 entries
The Daily Star: Poet Shamsur Rahman’s drama translation: Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Marco Millions’
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Fundación Santander Creativa: Teatro: "Largo viaje hacia la noche" de Eugene O’Neill
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National Park Service (.gov): Eugene O'Neill Festival
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JSTOR Daily: Vol. 43, No. 1, 2022 The Eugene O'Neill Review
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Anna Christie review – Michelle Williams is miscast in Eugene O’Neill misfire
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JSTOR Daily: Eugene O'Neill Remembered
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2024· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: South Street Seaport Museum to Present IN THE ZONE: A Maritime Play By Eugene O'Neill
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Long Day’s Journey Into Night review – all-star cast conjure a visceral O'Neill
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2000· 1 entry
A team of researchers studying O'Neill's autopsy report concluded that he died of cerebellar cortical atrophy, a rare form of brain deterioration unrelated to either alcohol use or Parkinson's disease
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1967· 1 entry
The United States Postal Service honored O'Neill with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) $1 postage stamp
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Long Day's Journey into Night (1957).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Play for Long Day's Journey into Night (1957).
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1956· 1 entry
Carlotta arranged for his autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night to be published, although his written instructions had stipulated that it not be made public until 25 years after his death
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1953· 1 entry
Died 1953-11-27.
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1950· 2 entries
Eugene O'Neill Jr., a Yale classicist, suffered from alcoholism and died by suicide in 1950 at the age of 40.
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O'Neill joined The Lambs, the famed theater club
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1943· 2 entries
Just before leaving Tao House and losing his ability to write
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O'Neill disowned his daughter Oona for marrying the English actor, director, and producer Charlie Chaplin when she was 18 and Chaplin was 54
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1936· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1936).
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O'Neill received the Nobel Prize in Literature after he had been nominated that year by Henrik Schück, member of the Swedish Academy
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1929· 3 entries
After O'Neill abandoned Boulton and the children for the actress Carlotta Monterey
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They divorced on July 2, 1929, after O'Neill abandoned Boulton and the children for the actress Carlotta Monterey.
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O'Neill and Monterey moved to the Loire Valley in central France, where they lived in the Château du Plessis in Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre-et-Loire
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Strange Interlude (1928).
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1922· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Anna Christie (1922).
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1920· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Beyond the Horizon (1920).
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To great acclaim and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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1917· 1 entry
O'Neill met Agnes Boulton, a successful writer of commercial fiction, and they married on April 12, 1918
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1913· 1 entry
O'Neill first explored the darker themes that he later thrived on
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1912· 1 entry
In his room at Jimmy-the-Priest's boarding house and saloon, which — together with the Hell Hole — would one day become the setting for his play The Iceman Cometh
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1909· 1 entry
O'Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909, to 1912, during which time they had one son, Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (1910–1950).
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1900· 1 entry
Became a day student at the De La Salle Institute on 59th Street in Manhattan
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1888· 2 entries
Born 1888-10-16.
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In a hotel, the Barrett House, on what was then Longacre Square (now Times Square) in New York City
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