Eugene O'Neill



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Eugene O'Neill

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born
in New York, New York, The United States
December 13, 1901

died
November 27, 1953

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Theater

influences
Maxim Gorki


About this author

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches.

His plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one comedy (Ah, Wilderness!):...more


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Eugene O'Neill's Books

Average rating: 3.94 · 26,686 ratings · 813 reviews · 133 distinct works · Similar authors
Long Day's Journey Into Night
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 15,159 ratings — published 1941 — 31 editions
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The Iceman Cometh
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 3,690 ratings — published 1946 — 16 editions
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Mourning Becomes Electra
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 1,648 ratings — published 1931 — 10 editions
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,413 ratings — published 1952 — 8 editions
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Three Plays: Desire Under t...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 709 ratings — published 1931 — 2 editions
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The Hairy Ape
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 1922 — 17 editions
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The Emperor Jones
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3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 614 ratings — published 1920 — 11 editions
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Desire Under the Elms & The...
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 1958
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Ah, Wilderness!
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1934 — 7 editions
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Anna Christie
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1921 — 18 editions
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Quotes by Eugene O'Neill

“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”
― Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown and Other Plays
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“Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.”
― Eugene O'Neill
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“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
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