He attended Princeton University for one year. He also briefly attended Betts Academy in Stamford. The O'Neill family reunited for summers at the Monte Cristo Cottage in New London, Connecticut. In 1900, he became a day student at the De La Salle Institute on 59th Street in Manhattan. Aloysius Academy for Boys, a Catholic boarding school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Because his father was often on tour with a theatrical company, accompanied by Eugene's mother, in 1895 O'Neill was sent to St. His father suffered from alcoholism his mother from an addiction to morphine, prescribed to relieve the pains of the difficult birth of Eugene, who was her third son.

He was the son of Irish immigrant actor James O'Neill and Mary Ellen Quinlan, who was also of Irish descent. The site is now occupied by 1500 Broadway, which houses offices, shops and the ABC Studios. A commemorative plaque was first dedicated there in 1957. O'Neill was born on Octoin a hotel, the Barrett House, at Broadway and 43rd Street, on what was then Longacre Square (now Times Square) in New York City. Statue of O'Neil as a boy, sitting and writing, overlooking the harbor of New London, Connecticut

Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism. Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known ( Ah, Wilderness!). They struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusion and despair. O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest U.S.

the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (Octo– November 27, 1953) was an American playwright awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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