ee him for the first time. This was the last time he and Kathleen would ever see each other again. They were divorced within three years of marriage. Eugene tried to commit suicide about 5 years later. A friend found him in a coma at his house after frequent calls. O’Neill was rushed to the hospital and eventually woke up from the effects of the Veronal he drank and recovered. In 1919 O’Neill wrote a play about his suicide attempt called Exorcism. Though after seeing it in a performance he took the scripts and destroyed them. Most of Eugene’s plays especially the last period of his playwrighting career reflected some page in his life. These plays were more re-enactments than actual plays themselves. A lot of the characters had the names that the actual people themselves had. These plays reflected some point in O’Neill’s life that was significant. In his final play called A Long Days Journey Into Night, was a revelation of his life and his family’s secrets. A revival of this play in 1956 lead to the first production of A Long Days Journey Into Night. He then won his final Pulitzer Prize in 1957, five years after his death.On December 9, 1912, Eugene O’Neill was admitted into The Fairfield County State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Shelton. Two months later he was moved to Gaylord Farm Sanatorium in Wallingford. During this period of recovery at Gaylord, O’Neill was inspired to become a playwright. He wrote his first plays while in the sanatorium. After leaving the sanatorium three months later, he studied the techniques of playwriting at Harvard University from 1914 to 1915 under the famous theater scholar George Pierce Baker. At Harvard he learned of playwrighting techniques that were built around drama and capturing the attention of the audience. After Harvard he lived in Providencetown, Massachusetts, and in New York City, where he served as both a dramatist and a manager ...
