Eugene O’Neill (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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For the first seven years of O’Neill’s life he traveled with his parents, while his father toured the country as the star in a stage version of The Count of Monte Cristo. He attended boarding schools before entering Princeton University in 1906. After failing to complete his freshman year, he spent the next six years working on steamships and living a drunken, derelict existence in various ports between voyages.

In 1912 O’Neill contracted tuberculosis. While recovering in a sanitarium he began to write plays, mostly only one act long,...

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