Eugene O'Neill
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Eugene O
Playwright

 Net worth: $2,000,000

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Height: 180 cm / 5 ft 11 in tall


Birthday

: 16 October 1888

Birthplace

: New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Sign

: Libra
 

Died

: 27 November 1953

Lived

: 65 years

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  • Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature
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Real name:Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill Height


How tall was Eugene O'Neill?180 cm / 5 ft 11 in
Born:16 October 1888 Comment
When did Eugene O'Neill die? / Died27 November 1953
How many years did Eugene O'Neill live? / Lived65 years
Where was Eugene O'Neill born?New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Where did Eugene O'Neill die? / Deathplace Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Zodiac sign:Libra

Eugene O'Neill Net worth 2024 (estimated)


How much is Eugene O'Neill worth?$2,000,000
Hair color:Black
Eyes color:Dark brown



Who was Eugene O'Neill? / Facts   


  • Early life and family - O'Neill was born in a hotel, the Barrett House, at Broadway and 43rd Street, on what was then Longacre Square (now Times Square).
    He was the son of Irish immigrant actor James O'Neill and Mary Ellen Quinlan, who was also of Irish descent.
    His father suffered from alcoholism and his mother from an addiction to morphine, prescribed to relieve the pains of the difficult birth of her third son, Eugene.
    O'Neill had two elder brothers.
    O'Neill's parents and elder brother Jamie (who drank himself to death at the age of 45) died within three years of one another, not long after he had begun to make his mark in the theater.
  • Education - Because his father was often on tour with a theatrical company, accompanied by Eugene's mother, in 1895 O'Neill was sent to St. Aloysius Academy for Boys, a Catholic boarding school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
    In 1900, he became a day student at the De La Salle Institute in Manhattan.
    O'Neill also briefly attended Betts Academy in Stamford.
    He attended Princeton University for one year, and may have been suspended because he threw a beer bottle into the window of Professor Woodrow Wilson, the future president of the United States.
  • First job - O'Neill spent several years at sea, during which he suffered from depression and alcoholism.
    O'Neill joined the Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World, which was fighting for improved living conditions for the working class using quick on-the-job direct action.
  • Writing - O'Neill had previously been employed by the New London Telegraph, writing poetry as well as reporting. 
  • Playwright career - After his experience in 1912–13 at a sanatorium where he was recovering from tuberculosis, he decided to devote himself full-time to writing plays.
    In the fall of 1914, he entered Harvard University to attend a course in dramatic technique given by Professor George Baker.
    He left after one year.
    His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
    The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
  • Genre - O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society.
    They struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair.
    Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known (Ah, Wilderness!).
    Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.
  • Plays - O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
    His first major hit was The Emperor Jones, which ran on Broadway in 1920.
    His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (Pulitzer Prize 1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness!, a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been.
    After a ten-year pause, O'Neill's now-renowned play The Iceman Cometh was produced in 1946.
    The following year's A Moon for the Misbegotten failed, and it was decades before coming to be considered as among his best works.
  • Awards - Besides being the winner of four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, in 1936 O'Neill received the Nobel Prize for Literature after he had been nominated that year by Henrik Schück, member of the Swedish Academy.
  • Personal life - O'Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909 to 1912, during which time they had one son.
    In 1917, O'Neill met Agnes Boulton, a successful writer of commercial fiction. They married on April 12, had two children, but divorced in 1929, after O'Neill abandoned Boulton and the children for the actress Carlotta Monterey.
    O'Neill and Carlotta married less than a month after he officially divorced his previous wife.
    In their first years together, Monterey organized O'Neill's life, enabling him to devote himself to writing.
    She later became addicted to potassium bromide, and the marriage deteriorated, resulting in a number of separations, although they never divorced.
    In 1943, O'Neill disowned his daughter Oona for marrying the English actor, director, and producer Charlie Chaplin when she was 18 and Chaplin was 54. He never saw Oona again.
    His other two boys died by committing suicide.
    Oona ultimately inherited Spithead her father's estates.
  • Trivia - In 1950 O'Neill joined The Lambs, the famed theater club.
  • Illness - After suffering from multiple health problems (including depression and alcoholism) over many years, O'Neill ultimately faced a severe Parkinsons-like tremor in his hands which made it impossible for him to write during the last 10 years of his life.
    Only in 2000 was it discovered that he died of cerebellar cortical atrophy, a rare form of brain deterioration unrelated to either alcohol use or Parkinson's disease.
  • Death - O'Neill died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65.
    As he was dying, he whispered his last words: "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and died in a hotel room."
  • Posthumously-published plays - In 1956 his wife Carlotta arranged for his autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night to be published, although his written instructions had stipulated that it not be made public until 25 years after his death.
    It was produced on stage to tremendous critical acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957.
    This last play is widely considered to be his finest.
    Other posthumously-published works include A Touch of the Poet (1958) and More Stately Mansions (1967).
  • Honors - Eugene O'Neill is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
    George C. White founded the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut in 1964.
    In 1967, the United States Postal Service honored O'Neill with a Prominent Americans series postage stamp.

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 Education   


  • St. Aloysius Academy for Boys
  • De La Salle Institute
  • Betts Academy
  • Princeton University
  • Harvard University

 Quotes


Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Critics? I love every bone in their heads.
Happiness hates the timid! So does science!
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.


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