New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America by Nathan Miller

Author:Nathan Miller [Miller, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, United States, 20th Century
ISBN: 9780306813795
Google: RvU1p5tjGhgC
Amazon: 0306813793
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2004-07-27T23:00:00+00:00

O’Neill’s work plumbed the depths of human misery, reflecting his own tortured life. The son of James O’Neill, an actor who had become rich through his repeated appearances in a melodramatic The Count of Monte Cristo, and a morphine-addicted mother, O’Neill flirted with despair as long as he lived. Thrown out of Princeton after a freshman year largely spent drinking and chasing women, he prospected for gold in Honduras, became a newspaper reporter, an actor, and, most important for his later work, went to sea. All the while, O’Neill drank with a suicidal intensity. In 1912, he came down with tuberculosis and, with time on his hands as he recuperated in a sanatorium, systematically began to read the great dramatists. Strongly influenced by August Strindberg, he decided to write plays himself.

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