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  “I am far from being a pessimist… On the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death with life!”
--Eugene O’Neill

Name:                                      Eugene Gladstone O’Neill

Date of Birth:                            October 16, 1888

Died:                                        November 27, 1953

Ethnicity:                                   Irish

Nationality:                               American

Education:                                Mt. St. Vincent in the Bronx
                                                Betts Academy in Stamford, Conn.
                                                Princeton University (1906-1907)

Influences:                                Ibsen, Strindberg, George Bernard Shaw, the Bible, Greek Tragedy

Best Known Works:                 Beyond the Horizon (1920); Anna Christie (1922);
                                               Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Days Journey Into Night (1957).

Credits:                                    Raised American dramatic theater to a respected art form
            around the world.

Accomplishments:                   Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 and also won four Pulitzer Prizes for his works mentioned above.  

  Long Days Journey into Night is an autobiographical play that is taken directly fromO’Neill’s own dysfunctional family.  Its raw and straightforward style depicts a day in
the life of the Tyrone family.  

--created by Bobbie Umenhoffer, lightly edited by LG.