EUGENE O'NEILL (1922-25) Set of 3 photos

Various. No binding. Very Good. Np: Various, (1922-1925). Set of 3 vintage original black-and-white single and double weight glossy silver gelatin photos: two 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) and one 5 x 7" (12 x 18 cm) candid. The portraits are from 1922 (with a second 1925 ink stamp) and 1923, one mentioning Anna Christie on verso. The 1924 candid features O'Neill on his way to Bermuda. Versos include ink stamps, paper blurbs and handwritten notations. Overall very good. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the US the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest American plays in the 20th century. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society. They struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, ultimately sliding into disillusion and despair. Of his very few comedies, only one is well known, Ah, Wilderness! Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism. (Wikipedia)