O'Neill : Son and Artist

Louis Scheaffer

ISBN 10: 0815412444 / ISBN 13: 9780815412441

Published by Cooper Square Press, 2002

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: O'Neill : Son and Artist
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815412444
• ISBN 13: 9780815412441
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 41D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 41 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1094 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Louis Sheaffer (1912-1997), a former reporter and press agent, was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships and a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities for his work on O'Neill.