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Eugene O'Neill, American Playwright

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (Pulitzer Prize 1928), and Mourning Becomes Electra (1931). In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. After a ten year pause, O'Neill's now-renowned play The Iceman Cometh was produced in 1946. After suffering from multiple health problems (including depression and alcoholism), he began suffering severe tremors which made it impossible for him to write. He died in 1953, at the age of 65. As he was dying, he whispered his last words: "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room." Photographed by Alice Boughton, not dated.
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Eugene O'Neill, American Playwright
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (Pulitzer Prize 1928), and Mourning Becomes Electra (1931). In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. After a ten year pause, O'Neill's now-renowned play The Iceman Cometh was produced in 1946. After suffering from multiple health problems (including depression and alcoholism), he began suffering severe tremors which made it impossible for him to write. He died in 1953, at the age of 65. As he was dying, he whispered his last words: "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room." Photographed by Alice Boughton, not dated.
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