Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

(1888–1953) screenwriter United States

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Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) was a United States screenwriter, known for All God's Chillun Got Wings|Mourning Becomes Electra.

About Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Sr. 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.

Known for:

All God's Chillun Got Wings|Mourning Becomes Electra

Notable works:

Plays

Awards:

Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Tony Award for Best Play|star on Playwrights' Sidewalk|Laurence Olivier Awards|Nobel Prize in Literature

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