The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936
Awarded on: 1936-11-12
"for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Born: 1888-10-16 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American playwright (1888–1953)
Biography
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists 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. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.