American playwright (1888-1953) who occupies a central place in the history of 20th-century drama. Among his most famous works are The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, and Long Day's Journey into Night. Vintage matte-finish 8 x 10 photo of O'Neill on the wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, taken in 1919 by Nickolas Muray, signed in fountain pen, “Sincerely, Eugene O'Neill." In fine condition, with some faint staining in the borders.
The wharf in Provincetown was a special place for O'Neill. In 1916, he had followed friends to the seaside town with a trunk of his unproduced plays and fell in love with the fledgling Provincetown Players. By the end of the summer, the players produced his Bound East for Cardiff at a ramshackle theater on the wharf, returning to New York that fall with the group to establish the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village.
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