• Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright who won a Nobel Prize for Literature and several Pulitzer Prizes.

• Fast Facts

  1. Full Name: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
  2. Born: October 16, 1888 in New York City
  3. First publication: Beyond the Horizon (1920)
  4. One of the first playwrights to use American vernacular language
  5. Won many awards, including the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize
  6. Married to Kathleen Jenkins, Agnes Burton and Carlotta Monterey
  7. Disowned his daughter, Oona, for marrying Charlie ChaplinMoiraKelly.net: People Magazine, Dec. 19
  8. 2 sons committed suicide
  9. Died: November 27, 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts
  10. Cause of death first thought to be Parkinson's Disease
  11. Later determined as late-onset cerebellar cortical atrophyNeuroscience for Kids: Eugene O'Neill - What Went Wrong?

• Awards

  1. Pulitzer Prize for Beyond the Horizon (1920)
  2. Pulitzer Prize for Anna Christie (1922)
  3. Pulitzer Prize for Strange Interlude (1928)
  4. Nobel Prize for Literature (1936)

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