Part one of term paper
was a very talented man and was very fortunate in having the writing skill he did. Eugene was a man of the theater, he was born in it, lived in it, worked in it and wrote in it. (Henry, “Eugene O'Neill”, p.157.) O'Neill is referred to as the most important twentieth century writer, not because he was the first american playwright b ...

Part two of term paper
... achieved an international reputation throughout the world, his plays and stories are the subject of countless books and articles. Eugene was born at the Barrett Hotel in New York on Oct, 16 1888. His father James O'Neill was one of Americas most popular 19th Century actors, who was imprisoned by the material success of his role as the Count of Monte Cristo. Eugene's mother Ellen Quinlan O'Neill was a romantic and idealistic women who was affected most of her life by an addiction to morphine. D ...