Quick Facts

• 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

Best Known For

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.