Irish-American Writers
Eugene O'Neill
An Irish-American playwright, Eugene O'Neill was also a Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism and to involve characters on the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. 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. 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 Long Days Journey Into Night, written in 1941, was first performed in 1956 (Pulitzer Prize, 1957).
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