Eugene O'Neill

@Harvard University, Career and Family ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a renowned American playwright Depression Nobel Laureates In Literature American Harvard University Princeton University Writers Playwrights Libra Celebrities Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a renowned American playwright. He remained one of the pioneers in introducing poetically titled plays, which were usually used by certain playwrights of Russia, Sweden and Norway. O'Neill’s tragic masterpiece, ‘Long Day's Journey Into Night’, produced after his death in 1956, is not only considered his best work but also listed among greatest American plays of the twentieth century. His long line of remarkable plays includes ‘Beyond the Horizon’, ‘Anna Christie’, ‘The Emperor Jones’, ‘Desire Under the Elms’, ‘Ah, Wilderness!’, and ‘The Iceman Cometh’. A few of his one act plays are ‘A Wife for a Life’, ‘Fog’, ‘Before Breakfast’ and ‘Exorcism’. He was one of the pioneers to use colloquial American speeches in plays. Many of his characters hailed from outskirts of society and strived to keep up their expectations but finally slipped into discontentment due to adversities. A certain degree of hardship, struggle, melancholy and pessimism prevail in most of his plays. The only notable comic play, among the few he had written in the genre, that became famous is ‘Ah, Wilderness!’. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.

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Birthday: October 16, 1888 Died on: November 27, 1953 Nationality: American Famous: Nobel Laureates In Literature, Harvard University, Princeton University, Writers, Playwrights Spouses: Anges Boulton, Carlotta Monterey, Kathleen Jenkins Known as: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Childrens: Jr, Oona, Shane Information Detail Birthday October 16, 1888 Died on November 27, 1953 Nationality American Famous Nobel Laureates In Literature, Harvard University, Princeton University, Writers, Playwrights Spouses Anges Boulton, Carlotta Monterey, Kathleen Jenkins Known as Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Childrens Jr, Oona, Shane Universities Harvard University,Princeton University Notable Alumnis Harvard University Princeton University Birth Place New York City, New York, U.S. Gender Male Father M Mother Mary Ellen Quinlan Sun Sign Libra Born in New York City, New York, U.S. Famous as Playwright Died at Age 65

New York City, New York, U.S.

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From October 2, 1909 to 1912 he was married to Kathleen Jenkins. The couple had a son Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Unsplash Personal Life

From April 12, 1918 to 1929 he was married to writer Anges Boulton. They had two children, Oona and Shane. Unsplash Personal Life

Just after his divorce with Anges, he married actress Carlotta Monterey in 1929. Unsplash Personal Life

He was born on October 16, 1888, in the ‘Barrett House, a family-style hotel in New York, in an Irish family to James O'Neill and Mary Ellen Quinlan. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

His father was an actor and due to his father’s touring profession his mother also travelled extensively and settled down shortly only during births of her three children. His early childhood saw him hovering between hotel rooms, backstage and trains. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He faced a challenging childhood as his father suffered from alcoholism and his mother was a morphine addict. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Around his seventh birthday, he was sent to ‘St. Aloysius Academy for Boys’, a boarding school in Bronx where he spent years growing up in a strict Catholic atmosphere. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

During summers he stayed at family’s only permanent residence, the ‘Monte Cristo Cottage’, besides the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1914 he enrolled at the ‘Harvard University’ to study dramatic technique under the guidance of Professor George Baker, but dropped out after a year before completing the course. Unsplash Career

He wrote many remarkable plays during 1910s and 1920s. Some are ‘Beyond the Horizon’ (1918), ‘Anna Christie’ (1920), ‘The Emperor Jones’ (1920), ‘The Hairy Ape’ (1922), ‘All God's Chillun Got Wings’ (1924), ‘Desire Under the Elms’ (1924), ‘Lazarus Laughed’ (1925–26), ‘The Great God Brown’ (1926) and ‘Strange Interlude’ (1928). Unsplash Career

His association with the ‘Provincetown Players’, a group of writers, artists, intellectuals and amateur theater enthusiasts, started in the middle of 1916. All his one-act sea plays and a few others were produced by the group in their theaters from 1916 to 1920. Unsplash Career

His first full length play ‘Beyond the Horizon’ that opened in February 2, 1920 in the ‘Morosco Theater’ on ‘Broadway’ garnered accolades from the audience and received the ‘Pulitzer Prize for Drama’. His other works that earned the ‘Pulitzer Prize for Drama’ are ‘Anna Christie’ in 1922, ‘Strange Interlude’ in 1928 and ‘Long Day's Journey Into Night’ in 1957. Unsplash Career

His play ‘The Emperor Jones’ that was performed in ‘Broadway’ in 1920 remains his first major hit. The play made indirect reference to that year’s debatable subject for the presidential election, the US occupation of Haiti. Unsplash Career

In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

Information	Detail
Birthday	October 16, 1888
Died on	November 27, 1953
Nationality	American
Famous	Nobel Laureates In Literature, Harvard University, Princeton University, Writers, Playwrights
Spouses	Anges Boulton, Carlotta Monterey, Kathleen Jenkins
Known as	Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Childrens	Jr, Oona, Shane
Universities	Harvard University,Princeton University
Notable Alumnis	Harvard University Princeton University
Birth Place	New York City, New York, U.S.
Gender	Male
Father	M
Mother	Mary Ellen Quinlan
Sun Sign	Libra
Born in	New York City, New York, U.S.
Famous as	Playwright
Died at Age	65

Eugene O'Neill

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Oct 16, 1888

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New York City, New York, U.S.