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The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism, a collapse of his health, and bouts of mania while still a young man. Based on years of extensive research and access to previously untapped sources, Sheaffer's authoritative biography examines how the pain of O'Neill's childhood fed his desire to write dramas and affected his artistically successful and emotionally disastrous life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 1. The Old Actorâs Finale
- 2. The Provincetownâs Costly Success
- 3. Uneven Playwright
- 4. The Motherâs End
- 5. Echoing Strindberg
- 6. Legacy from Jamie
- 7. Besieged Playhouse
- 8. A Drama of Masks
- 9. Dion Anthonyâs Course
- 10. OâNeillâs Reformation
- 11. Actress in Maine
- 12. Strange Interlude
- 13. OâNeillâs âVulturesâ
- 14. End of a Marriage
- 15. OâNeill and Carlotta
- 16. Third Marriage
- 17. At the Château
- 18. Mourning Becomes Electra
- 19. Homecoming
- 20. At Sea Island
- 21. Controversial Drama
- 22. Nobel Laureate
- 23. Cycle Shelved
- 24. OâNeill âThe Icemanâ
- 25. OâNeillâs Tremor
- 26. Rejected Children
- 27. Return to Broadway
- 28. Misbegotten Production
- 29. By the Sea Again
- 30. Estranged Pair
- 31. A Private Funeral
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index