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Eugene O'Neill Remembered

Edited by Brenda Murphy, and George Monteiro

Published by: University Of Alabama Press

Series: American Writers Remembered

Imprint: University of Alabama Press

Sales Date: 2021-12-14

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CA$36.95

Published: December 2021

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Imprint: University of Alabama Press

Series: Series: American Writers Remembered

Page Count: 400 Pages

Illustrations: 17 B&W figures

Dimensions: 152.00 x 228.00

400 Pages, 152.00 x 228.00 x 33.00 mm, 17 B&W figures

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ISBN: 9780817360450

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Eugene O'Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright's life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O'Neill.

Known principally as the author of some of the most significant plays in the American dramatic canon and as one of America's Nobel Laureates in literature, O'Neill rarely gave interviews and offered few details about himself. As a consequence, his life has long been shrouded in myth. He also abetted some of the misconceptions about his youth by, for example, advocating the story that he was expelled from Princeton for throwing a rock through Woodrow Wilson's window or by exaggerating the amount of time he had spent at sea. The legend of the hard-drinking, tormented playwright with a grim view of life was further reinforced when Long Day's Journey into Night was produced in 1956, three years after his death instead of the twenty-five years he had insisted on.

The portrayal of O'Neill as a tragic figure has been solidified in a number of biographies. The purpose of this collection, however, is to present O'Neill as others saw him and described him in their first-person accounts. In the course of these reminiscences, many of the vast and various narrators conflict with and contradict each other. Unlike other accounts of O'Neill's life, much of the focus is on impressions instead of facts. The result is a revealing composite portrait of a key figure in twentieth-century American literary history.

This extensive collection offers insights unavailable in any other book and will hold massive appeal for scholars and students interested in American literature, Eugene O'Neill, and theater history, as well as anyone keen to uncover intimate details of the life of one of America's greatest writers.

Brenda Murphy is professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of numerous books on twentieth-century American literature and drama, including The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity and The Theatre of Tennessee Williams.

George Monteiro is professor emeritus of English and an adjunct professor emeritus of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University. His books include Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage and Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed.

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction1

Part 1. New London, School, and Wandering (1888-1913)

1. George C. Tyler

2. Warren H. Hastings and Richard F. Weeks

3. Kathleen Jenkins Pitt-Smith

4. William Lee

5. Pierre Loving

6. Mabel Haynes

7. Clayton Hamilton

8. Irvin S. Cobb

9. Frederick P. Latimer

10. Arthur B. McGinley

11. Robert A. Woodworth

Part 2. Cambridge, Provincetown, and Greenwich Village (1914-1917)

12. Beatrice Ashe Maher

13. John V. A. Weaver

14. Susan Glaspell

15. Mary Heaton Vorse

16. Hutchins Hapgood

17. Harry Kemp

18. Adele Nathan

19. Dorothy Day

20. William Carlos Williams

Part 3. Provincetown Playhouse, Peaked Hill Bar, Ridgefield, Broadway (1918-1927)

21. Hazel Hawthorne Werner

22. Juliet Throckmorton

23. Manuel Zora

24. Edmund Wilson

25. Charles O'Brien Kennedy

26. Agnes Boulton

27. Jasper Deeter

28. Stark Young

29. Malcolm Cowley

30. Hart Crane

31. Harold De Polo

32. Brooks Atkinson

33. Calvin Hoffman

Part 4. Europe, Georgia, the Theatre Guild, California (1928-1937)

34. Louis Fladger

35. John Lardner

36. Bennett Cerf

37. Lawrence Langner

38. Brooks Atkinson

39. Rouben Mamoulian

40. Theresa Helburn

41. George Jean Nathan

42. Maxine Edie Benedict

Part 5. California and New York (1938-1948)

43. Carlotta Monterey O'Neill

44. Marcella Markham

45. Ingrid Bergman

46. Sean O'Casey

47. Karl Schriftgiesser

48. S. J. Woolf

49. Max Gordon

50. Herbert J. Stoeckel

51. Saxe Commins

52. Bennett Cerf

53. Paul Crabtree

54. Mary Welch

Part 6. Marblehead and Boston (1948-1953)

55. Saxe Commins

56. Carlotta Monterey O'Neill

57. Bennett Cerf

58. Earle F. Johnson

59. Dr. Frederic B. Mayo

60. Sallie Coughlin

61. Russel Crouse

62. Carl Van Vechten

List of Reminiscences

Additional Reminiscences

Biographical Sketches of Important Names

Permissions

Notes

Works Cited

Illustrations follow page 000.

"Adding previously unpublished memoirs to available biographical material on the playwright, the volume corrects, perhaps inadvertently, some prevailing misconceptions about O'Neill. Biographies of O'Neill abound, to be sure. What distinguishes this volume is the gathering of disparate voices of O'Neill's family members, friends, associates, and acquaintances, which vividly bring into relief the pitfalls of the single narrator's voice, be it that of the biographer or the autobiographer. Recommended."
-CHOICE

"Murphy and Monteiro have provided a timely addition to the emerging 'full' picture of Eugene O'Neill-the playwright, the artist, and the man".
-Resources for American Literary Study, 2018

"Eugene O'Neill Remembered is a cabinet of curiosity for diverse, fragmentary evocations left by a noisy writer and a difficult man who self-consciously made literary and theatrical history in the first part of the twentieth century."
-William Davies King, author of Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton

"Monteiro and Murphy's exemplary compilation will be greeted with cheers from those of us interested in gaining new access to the playwright's elusive personality and the nature of his closest associations."
-Robert M. Dowling, author of Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts

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