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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Awards
- 🏆 Laurence Olivier Awards🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Drama🏆 Tony Award for Best Play🏆 star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
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Trending topics shown first"I hate doctors! They'll do anything — anything to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls! What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell!"
"We can begin to create new goals for ourselves, ends for our days! A new discipline for life will spring into being, a new will and power to live, a new ideal to measure the value of our lives by! … W…"
"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!"
"You mustn't feel sorry for me. Don't you see I'm happy at last — free — free! — freed from the farm — free to wander on and on — eternally! Look! Isn't it beautiful beyond the hills? I can hear the ol…"
"How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goo…"
"What the hell was it I wanted to buy, I wonder, that was worth—Well no matter. It's a late day for regrets."
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Timeline
1888
Born
Birth1953
Died
Death
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