Eugene O'Neill Biography

Eugene O'Neill biography

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NAME: Eugene O'Neill
OCCUPATION: Playwright
BIRTH DATE: October 16, 1888
DEATH DATE: November 27, 1953
EDUCATION: Mt. St. Vincent, Betts Academy, Princeton University
PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
PLACE OF DEATH: Boston, Massachusetts
Full Name: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

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Eugene O'Neill was the first American dramatist to regard the stage as a literary medium and the only U.S. playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Playwright Eugene O'Neill was born October 16, 1888, in New York City. His masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night (produced posthumously 1956), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), Ah! Wilderness (1933), and The Iceman Cometh (1946). O'Neill died on November 27, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts.