Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill
Portrait of O'Neill by Alice Boughton
Born	Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-10-16)October 16, 1888 New York City, U.S.
Died	November 27, 1953(1953-11-27) (aged 65) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Playwright
Education	Princeton University
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature (1936) Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1920, 1922, 1928, 1957) Tony Award for Best Play (1957)
Spouse	Kathleen Jenkins ​ ​ (m. 1909; div. 1912)​ Agnes Boulton ​ ​ (m. 1918; div. 1929)​ Carlotta Monterey ​ (m. 1929)​
Children	Eugene Jr. Shane Oona
Parents	James O'Neill Mary Ellen Quinlan
Relatives	Charlie Chaplin (son in-law) Geraldine Chaplin (granddaughter) Oona Chaplin (great-granddaughter)
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.^[1] He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society. They struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusion and despair. Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known (Ah, Wilderness!).^[2][3] Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.