Eugene O’Neil, an American author, celebrates his birthday today. He was born on October 16, 1888, passed away on November 27, 1953, and in 1936, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
His father James O’Neil was a successful street in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and his most famous roles were Count de Mont Cresto and accompanied his mother Ella, her husband, back and forth across the country, according to the Britisha Encyclopedia.
Eugene O’Neill, born in a hotel, spent his early childhood in the rooms of hotel and trains and behind the scenes, and although he later expressed his regret for the obedient nightmare of insecurity in his early years and blamed his father for the difficult and harsh life that the family lived, which led to his mother’s addiction to drugs Eugene was born into the theatrical world.
O’Neill attended the internal schools in Stamford, Connecticut, and spent the summers in the family’s only permanent residence, a modest home with a Thames River view in New London, Connecticut. Between 1906 and 1907, he attended the University of Princeton for one year before leaving to begin what he later regarded as his formal education. He tried to commit suicide and drowned himself in drink throughout his “experience of life” while working on ships and living between Liverpool, New York City, andBuenos Aires.
At the age of twenty-four, he quickly recovered and found work as a writer and contributor to the New London hair section for a few months, but he soon developed tuberculosis. He was held at the Gaylord Farm Clinic in Winsford, Connecticut, for six months (1912–1913), at which time he started writing plays.
His long play was shown behind the horizon on Broadway theaters in 1920, and this play depicts two brothers who love the same girl, but one of them fond of the sea and adventure and his marriage is forced to move away from the sea, praising the tragic realistic critics of the play and won the Politzer Prize for her, and he won the same prize three times for His plays Anna Christie (1922) and a strange separation (1928), and a long day journey at night that he wrote in the 1940s, but it was shown in (1957), and obtained the interest of the theatrical audience and his fame and position increased in the following years in which he wrote twenty long plays (1920-1943) And
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Mr. Eugene O’Neill The life story of an American writer on his birthday
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