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(1888-1953) Dramatist, playwright, widely acknowledged as America’s greatest. Eugene O’Neill was born in Barrett House (no longer there), Broadway and 43rd Street; he came to Greenwich Village in 1915, and lived at 38 Washington Square; and also lived at 59 West 46th Street. One of Eugene O’Neill’s hangouts was the Golden Swan at 6th Avenue and 4th Street. O’Neill lived at 540 Asharoken Avenue, Northport, in 1931. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.

Full Name

Eugene O'Neill

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

O'Neill was a resident of Great Neck, New York.

1888

BIRTH

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was born in the Barrett House (no longer there) at Broadway and Forty-third Street, Manhattan, New York.

1914

LITWORK

Thirst


Collection of five short plays.

1915

RESIDENCE

O'Neill lived in Manhattan, New York. He came to Greenwich Village in 1915, and lived at 38 Washington Square; he also lived at 59 West 46th Street. One of Eugene O'Neill's hangouts was the Golden Swan at 6th Avenue and 4th Street.

1916

LITWORK

Bound East For Cardiff


Play.

1917

LITWORK

The Long Voyage Home
.

Play.

1920

LITWORK

Beyond The Horizon


Play. Pulitzer Prize winner.

1922

LITWORK

The Hairy Ape


Play.

1922

LITWORK

Anna Christie


Play. Pulitzer Prize winner.

1924

LITWORK

Desire Under the Elms

1927

LITWORK

Marco Millions


Play.

1928

LITWORK

Strange Interlude


Pulitzer Prize winner.

1931

OTHER

O'Neill lived at 540 Asharoken Avenue, Northport, New York, in 1931.

1931

LITWORK

Mourning Becomes Electra

1946

LITWORK

The Iceman Cometh

1953

DEATH

Eugene O'Neill died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1953.

1953

INTERMENT

Eugene O'Neill was interred at Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

1956

LITWORK

Long Day's Journey Into Night


Pulitzer Prize winner.

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