Eugene O'Neill

Also known as Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Eugene O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone O’Neill

American playwright (1888–1953)

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Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright who lived from 1888 to 1953 and is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in American drama. His works helped establish American theater as a serious literary art form and explored complex human emotions and social issues.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 16 October 1888
Died: 27 November 1953
Works: 595

Top works

The Great God Brown
Nine Plays by Eugene O'Neil
Exorcism
Iceman Cometh
Anna Christie

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1888-10-16
Active to: 1953-11-27

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Eugene O'Neill, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Sr. (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 American plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. 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, ultimately sliding into disillusion and despair. Of his very few comedies, only one is well known (Ah, Wilderness!). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.