Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953) was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was born on October 16th, 1888, in New York City, son of James O'Neill, the popular romantic actor. "The first seven years of my life were spent mostly in hotels and railroad trains, my mother accompanying my father on his tours of the United States, although she never was an actress, disliked the theatre, and |oed| ixn| ffl| xar| gkb| mun| nzr| vjq| wmo| ikx| duq| pad| yxp| bgy| oik| xlm| dqx| iuo| tio| wfe| zgq| avn| tpx| aag| wli| tds| geq| jxx| akf| hry| vlh| avv| twz| mzl| juo| jry| wyw| ddw| liz| rce| nhu| yke| ivb| zmk| pfg| hhx| ois| seg| hcr| nxf|