Publisher's Synopsis
Eugene O'Neill was a prominent American playwright in the 20th century. O'Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 and he also was one of the first American writers of realism. Some of O'Neill's most famous plays include Long Day's Journey into Night, Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh, and Morning Becomes Electra. Anna Christie is a play that earned O'Neill the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1922. The action centers around a former prostitute who tries to turn her life around.