Overview

This is the saga of the battle fought both in the public arena and in the home between James O'Neill, a matinee idol, and his son Eugene O'Neill, who became the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize. It is the story of how Eugene O'Neill, almost single-handedly, struggled to overturn the melodramatic conventions of the Victorian stage, and brought about the American theatre's coming of age in the 20th century.

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"""Masterfully written, brilliantly evocative, rich in interpretation."" -Elie Wiesel; ""A great symphony of a book... Here are many of the ingredients of a modern tragedy - alcoholism, drug addiction, ethnic angst, spiritual despair, even success of a certain kind, all narrated with insight, eloquence, and above all, compassion."" -Frank McCourt"""

Masterfully written, brilliantly evocative, rich in interpretation. -Elie Wiesel; A great symphony of a book... Here are many of the ingredients of a modern tragedy - alcoholism, drug addiction, ethnic angst, spiritual despair, even success of a certain kind, all narrated with insight, eloquence, and above all, compassion. -Frank McCourt

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Arthur Gelb, former managing editor of The New York Times, has edited numerous works, including Great Lives of the Twentieth Century. He is president of The New York Times Company Foundation. The Gelbs live in New York City. Barbara Gelb is the author of So Short a Time, a biography of John Reed and Louise Bryant, and she is the coauthor of O'Neill. Barbara and Arthur Gelb live in New York City.

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