October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962
[cummings (edward estlin)
poems prodigy age8harvard] wrote plays also
modern style (syntax
be damned) ambulance corps, the great
war (spy?)
hated war
loved france
personal tragedy
controversy
transcendental
(stroke)
October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953
American playwright Eugene O’Neill was literally born on Broadway – the Bartlett Hotel, to be precise – and found a figurative home there for his entire life churning out more than 30 full-length plays including the classics The Iceman Cometh, A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Mourning Becomes Electra.
O’Neill won many awards for his works, including several Pulitzers and a Nobel Prize for Literature. Continue reading →
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