1920's Science and Technology | Dynamo

Play script

By: Eugene O'Neill

Date: 1929

Source: O'Neill, Eugene. Dynamo. New York: H. Liveright, 1929. Reprinted in O'Neill: Complete Plays 1920–1931. New York: Viking Press, 1988, 873–874.

About the Author: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888–1953) was born in New York City. His father's success as an actor did not at first lead O'Neill to the theater. After a year at Princeton University, he drank and drifted. In 1912 he contracted tuberculosis and vowed that if he recovered he would become a playwright. He wrote more than thirty plays before a degenerative disease undermined his health in the 1940s. Four of his plays were awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and critical acclaim culminated in the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936. He was the first and (as of 2002) remains the only American playwright to have won a Nobel Prize.

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