Photograph by Nickolas Murray. Courtesy of The Hammerman Collection and eOneill.com

Photo by Dino Palomares

Eugene Gladstone O’Neill is the only American dramatist to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1936.  Four of his plays were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama: Beyond the Horizon in 1920; Anna Christie in 1922; Strange Interlude in 1928; and Long Day’s Journey Into Night in 1957, posthumously.  Much of his work, including Mourning Becomes Electra (quoted above), reflects his experiences as a seaman from 1910 to 1911.  O’Neill entered Princeton as a member of the Class of 1910 but struggled scholastically; this, along with disciplinary problems, caused him to withdraw at the end of his freshmen year.

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