Eugene O’Neill as Nobel Laureate and Four-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner

Life, Works and Honors of the Unique American Dramatist

Heinz-Dietrich Fischer

• Publisher: LIT Verlag
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9783643968708
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: American Drama

This volume presents a new look at American dramatist celebrity Eugene O'Neill,
recipient of the Nobel Literature award and four Pulitzer Prizes for drama. The book
concentrates on the question under which circumstances he won the top national and
international recognitions. So it is important to know the detailed praise of his works
by the Swedish Academy, resulting in the Nobel award of 1936. In a similar way, all
Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury reports could be consulted to explain how the decision-making
processes of the committees went, leading to his four Pulitzer decorations in
1920, 1924, 1928 and posthumously, in 1956. In addition, O'Neill's main documents
of honors, for the very first time in a book, are facsimile reprinted: his Nobel Prize
Diploma, his four Pulitzer Prize Certificates, and his honorary doctorate from Yale
University.

Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus
at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.

Table of contents

• Cover
• CONTENTS
• O’NEILL’S BIOGRAPHICAL PHASES The Life and Works 1888 - 1953
• O’NEILL’s CONTEMPORARY COMPETITORS Notable Award Winners 1918 - 1958
• O’NEILL’S FIRST PULITZER REWARD For „Beyond the Horizon“ (1920)
• O’NEILL’s SECOND PULITZER TROPHY For „Anna Christie“ (1924)
• O’NEILL’S THIRD PULITZER REWARD For „Strange Interlude“ (1928)
• O’NEILL’s NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE For „Original Concept of Tragedy“ (1936)
• O’NEILLS’s FOURTH PULITZER DECORATION For „Long Day’s Journey into Night“ (1957)
• BIBLIORAPHY