Who is Eugene ONeill?
Eugene O’Neill is an American playwright, best known for his plays Beyond the Horizon, Strange Interlude, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night. He was born in 1888 in New York City, and died in 1953, and over the course of his 65 years he won a Nobel Prize, four Pulitzer Prizes, and numerous other awards and distinctions. O’Neill is recognized as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, American playwright, and his plays continue to be performed throughout the world to much acclaim. Born in a hotel room on Broadway, it was almost inevitable the theatre would rule the life of Eugene O’Neill. His father, James O’Neill, was an actor, and he was immersed in the world of theatre from an early age. He attended Princeton University, but was expelled soon after entering, and over the next few years he experienced life at an accelerated rate. In the course of six years he had married and divorced, had a son, worked as a sailor for years, been a gold miner in Honduras, and been
