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Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) was an American playwright "famous for the bleak and tragic tone of his plays, which persistently examine the crushed hopes and dreams of the underprivileged."[1] His best-known plays include:
- Anna Christie;
- Desire Under the Elms;
- Mourning Becomes Electra;
- Ah, Wilderness;
- The Iceman Cometh;
- Long Day's Journey into Night; and
- A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Four of his plays were awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and O'Neill received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy".[2] He is regarded as "one of the greatest playwrights in American history".[3]
