Although O'Neill was innate within Up to date York City, his early life was intimately attached to New London, Connecticut. His father was stage actor James O'Neill, who had owned property in New London before Eugene's birth. His mother was addicted to morphia. O'Neill is typically associated by having a "Provincetown Players", & many of his early plays wer sham per class action of actor/playwrights. As an adult, O'Neill was listed per Up to date London Telegraph, & wrote his 1st plays when dwelling there. (Connecticut College maintains an O'Neill archive and a Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Waterford fosters the development of newly plays under his title.) Within 1929 he moved to the Loire Valley of northwest France, where he sleep in the Chateau du Plessis in St. Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre-et-Loire. He moved to Danville, California in 1937 and resided there until 1944. His at home there, called Tao Home, is in todays world a Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site.

O'Neill's 1st published play, Beyond a Horizon, opened around Broadway in 1920 to great plaudit, including a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His right-known plays include Want Under a Elms, Strange Interlude (for which he once more won a Pulitzer Prize), Mourning Becomes Electra, and his career's merely comedy Ah, Wilderness!, a wistful re-imagining of his have youth when he wished it experienced been. Inside 1936 he received a Nobel Prize for Literature. Fallowing the decade-month pause, O'Neill's at present-an expert play The Iceman Cometh was produced in 1946. A as a result season's A Moon for the Misbegotten failed, & would non benefit recognition and placement among his better works until decades late.

Carlotta Monterey was O'Neill's third married woman. A ageing playwright renounced his girl Oona for marrying Charlie Chaplin when she was only 18 years old (Chaplin was of these month her father's junior).

Inside 1953, O'Neill died in the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, a building which is presently utilized by Boston University as Shelton Hall dormitory. In Shelton Hall there is a plaque dedicated to O'Neill & a Seventh floor in which he died is today a Writer's Corridor. He was interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Within 1956, triad years fallowing O'Neill's demise, his autobiographical masterpiece ''Long Day's Journey Into Night was published and produced on stage. His more posthoumously promulgated plays were The Touch of the Poet (1958) and Extra Stately Mansions (1967).

Selected Works
Beyond the Horizon, 1920 The Hairy Ape, 1922 Anna Christie, 1922 Desire Under the Elms, 1925 Strange Interlude, 1928 Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931 Ah, Wilderness!, 1933 The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, first performed 1946 Long Day's Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956 A Moon for the Misbegotten, 1943 A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958 More Stately Mansions'', second draft discovered around O'Neill's papers, 1st performed 1967