Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S.

Barbara Gelb, an author and journalist who, with her husband, Arthur Gelb, produced the first full-scale biography of the playwright Eugene O’Neill, then followed it decades later with two volumes ...

As a touring stage actor, James O'Neill exposed his son Eugene to the theater at an early age. As a playwright, his son would reject the kind of conventional melodrama his father starred in. So would ...

Turlough McConnell's "Eugene O’Neill: An Irish-American Boyhood": a portrait of a young genius in post-famine New York. In his dramatic presentation "Eugene O’Neill: An Irish-American Boyhood," noted ...

An O'Neill to be celebrated: Irish American playwright Eugene O'Neill shone a light on ancient hatreds paving the way for a more open and tolerant society. He died on this day in 1953. Not long ago I ...

It's perfectly understandable that obituaries marking the death of Arthur Gelb would highlight his many influential years at the helm of The New York Times. But the first thing I thought of when I ...

‘The intellect of man is forced to choose,” wrote Yeats, “perfection of the life or of the work.” Eugene O’Neill chose the work. A few of his biographers, regrettably, choose his life. The qualities ...

How many shows has Eugene O'Neill written? Eugene O'Neill has written 40 shows including In The Zone (Playwright), Beyond the Horizon (Playwright), The Emperor Jones (Playwright), Diff'rent ...

Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" will resume performances Nov. 5 in New York. On Oct. 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of ...