Strange Interlude | Author Biography
Eugene O’Neill was born on October 16, 1888, in New York City, the youngest son of James (an actor) and Ella Quinlan O’Neill. O’Neill was educated at a Catholic boarding school and at Betts Academy in Stamford, Connecticut, before attending Princeton University in 1906. He was dismissed from Princeton a year later because of a poor scholastic record. In 1909, O’Neill married Kathleen Jenkins and went to Honduras to join a goldprospecting expedition. He returned to New York in 1910, the year his son, Eugene Gladstone O’Neill Jr. was born.
In 1910, O’Neill sailed to...
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