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Eugene O'Neill

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Playwright

The Resume

    (October 16, 1888-November 27, 1953)
    Wrote 'The Iceman Cometh,' 'Long Day's Journey Into Night,' 'A Moon for the Misbegotten,' 'Strange Interlude,' 'Hughie,' 'Mourning Becomes Electra,' 'Anna Christie' and 'Ah, Wilderness'

Why he might be annoying:

    He was hospitalized after attempted suicide due to depression.
    His daughter Oona married Charlie Chaplin, a man who was the same age as her father.
    He considered his autobiographical play 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' to be so scathing that he forbid it to be performed until twenty-five years after his death.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He is the namesake of the Eugene O'Neill theater on Broadway.
    His widow ignored his wishes and allowed 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' to be performed only three years after his death, when it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, and was universally hailed as the finest play written by an American.
    He suffered from tuberculosis.
    He suffered from Parkinson's Disease.
    He is considered the first American playwright of major talent.
    He was the first playwright to write plays that had leading roles for African American actors ('The Emperor Jones' and 'All God's Chillun Got Wings').
    He is the only American Playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1936).
    He is the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

Credit: Jon Mullich


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 39 Votes: 7.69% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 35 Votes: 5.71% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 42.11% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 17 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 61 Votes: 39.34% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 57 Votes: 35.09% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 115 Votes: 45.22% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 130 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 175 Votes: 40.57% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 295 Votes: 49.83% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 576 Votes: 44.62% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 2000 Votes: 39.55% Annoying