Today in Literature: Oscar Wilde and Eugene O'Neill

Born this day are two great and influential writers.

Irish-American Eugene O'Neill, born in 1888 in a New York City Broadway hotel. Son of a famous actor, he became arguably America's greatest playwright. Four Pulitzer Prizes went to his work, including one posthumously for Long Day's Journey Into Night

Read more about O'Neill at the PBS "American Masters" site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/oneill_e.html

It is also the birthdate of Dublin-born (1854) Oscar Wilde, one of the m...