Eugene O’Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 and wrote Long Day’s Journey into Night.
O’Neill was an American playwright born in New York City in 1888. His works brought psychological depth, family conflict, addiction, guilt, and tragic ambition to modern American drama. He remains the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Long Day’s Journey into Night was written in 1941–1942 but first published and performed after his death. The autobiographical play follows one day in the troubled Tyrone family and became one of his most acclaimed works.
The Nobel committee cited the power, honesty, and emotional force of his dramatic writing. O’Neill also wrote The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, and Desire Under the Elms.