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Eugene O'Neill

1888 - 1953

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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene O'Neill is the 467th most popular writer (up from 493rd in 2019), the 567th most popular biography from United States (down from 494th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Writer.

Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright who is most famous for his plays "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

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Among writers, Eugene O'Neill ranks 467 out of 7,302. Before him are Samuel Butler, Statius, Thomas Bernhard, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Harper Lee, and Mahmoud Darwish. After him are Alessandro Manzoni, Charles, Duke of Orléans, Erich von Däniken, Tulsidas, Mo Yan, and Françoise Sagan.

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Among people born in 1888, Eugene O'Neill ranks 23. Before him are Abul Kalam Azad, Carl Schmitt, C. V. Raman, Jean Monnet, Frits Zernike, and Raymond Chandler. After him are Selman Waksman, Friedrich Fromm, Inge Lehmann, F. W. Murnau, Johannes Itten, and Friedrich Olbricht. Among people deceased in 1953, Eugene O'Neill ranks 13. Before him are Gerd von Rundstedt, Robert Andrews Millikan, Guccio Gucci, Carol II of Romania, Klement Gottwald, and Emmerich Kálmán. After him are Django Reinhardt, Ivan Bunin, Vladimir Tatlin, Hans Fritzsche, Francis Picabia, and Raoul Dufy.

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Among people born in United States, Eugene O'Neill ranks 567 out of 20,380. Before him are Elinor Ostrom (1933), Dan Brown (1964), Shirley Temple (1928), Harper Lee (1926), Jodie Foster (1962), and Vesto Slipher (1875). After him are Robert Peary (1856), Jeff Bridges (1949), Lauren Bacall (1924), Rock Hudson (1925), Charles Cooley (1864), and Jon Brower Minnoch (1941).

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Among writers born in United States, Eugene O'Neill ranks 53. Before him are Gertrude Stein (1874), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), Philip Roth (1933), Dan Brown (1964), and Harper Lee (1926). After him are Louise Glück (1943), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), William S. Burroughs (1914), Tennessee Williams (1911), Richard Bach (1936), and Robert A. Heinlein (1907).

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