Irish-American Writers
Eugene O'Neill
An Irish-American playwright, Eugene O'Neill was also a Nobel laureate in literature. O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama. His best-known plays include Anna Christie, Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness!, a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been. In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. After a ten-year pause, O'Neill's now-renowned play The Iceman Cometh was produced in 1946, and a Long Day's Journey Into Night, written in 1941, was first performed in 1956 (and a Pulitzer Prize in 1957).
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