id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7530 Eugene O'Neill - Wikipedia .html text/html 5852 810 79 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. 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.[1] 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. The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut fosters the development of new plays under his name. ^ a b c d e Dowling, Robert M., Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts, Yale University Press, 2014 ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7530.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7530.txt