AKA Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Born: 16-Oct-1888
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 27-Nov-1953
Location of death: Boston, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: America's greatest playwright

Father: (actor, d. 1921, cancer)
Mother: Ella O'Neill (d. 1922)
Brother: Jamies (d. 1923, stroke)
Wife: Kathleen Jenkins (m. 1909, div. 1911, one son)
Wife: Agnes Boulton (m. 4-Dec-1918, div. 3-Jul-1929, one son, one daughter)
Wife: Carlotta Monterey (m. 22-Jul-1929, until his death)
Son: Shane
Daughter: Oona (m. Charlie Chaplin when she was age 17)

    High School: Betts Academy, Stamford, CT
    University: Princeton University
    University: Harvard University

    Nobel Prize for Literature 1936
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1920 for Beyond the Horizon
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1922 for Anna Christie
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1928 for Strange Interlude
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1957 for Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Suicide Attempt
    Irish Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Depression, Appendicitis

Wrote plays:
A Wife For Life (1913)
The Web (1913)
Recklessness (1914)
Before Breakfast (1916)
Beyond the Horizon (1918)
The Rope (1918)
Where the Cross is Made (1918)
The Dreamy Kid (1918)
Beyond the Horizon (1918)
The First Man (1920)
The Emperor Jones (1920)
Anna Christie (1920)
The Hairy Ape (1921)
The Fountain (1921)
The Hairy Ape (1921)
Welded (1923)
All God's Chillun Got Wings (1923)
Desire Under the Elms (1924)
Marco Millions (1925)
The Great God Brown (1925)
Lazarus Laughed (1926)
Strange Interlude (1926)
Dynamo (1928)
Mourning Become Electra (1931)
Ah Wilderness! (1932)
Days Without End (1933)
The Iceman Cometh (1939)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1941)
Hughie (1941)
A Touch of a Poet (1942)
A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943)
More Stately Mansions (1953)

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