(1888–1953), American playwright; full name Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon (1920). Other notable works: The Iceman Cometh (1946) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1956, posthumously).
Definition of O'Neill, Eugene in US English:
O'Neill, Eugene
proper nounōˈnēl
(1888–1953), US playwright; full name Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon (1920). Other notable works: The Iceman Cometh (1946) and Long Day's Journey into Night(1956, posthumously). Nobel Prize for Literature (1936).