WRITER

Eugene O'Neill

1888 - 1953

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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. 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 U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene O'Neill has received more than 4,255,576 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Eugene O'Neill is the 493rd most popular writer (up from 535th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from United States (up from 556th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Writer.

Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright who is most famous for his plays "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

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  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eugene O'Neill ranks 493 out of 7,302. Before him are Charles, Duke of Orléans, Wu Cheng'en, Giorgos Seferis, Ilya Ehrenburg, Ludvig Holberg, and Alessandro Manzoni. After him are Muhammad Iqbal, Patricia Highsmith, George R. R. Martin, G. K. Chesterton, Christopher Marlowe, and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Eugene O'Neill ranks 23. Before him are John Logie Baird, Roland Garros, C. V. Raman, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Frits Zernike, and Alexander Friedmann. After him are Richard E. Byrd, Friedrich Fromm, Johannes Itten, T. S. Eliot, Gerrit Rietveld, and Maurice Chevalier. Among people deceased in 1953, Eugene O'Neill ranks 16. Before him are Klement Gottwald, Guccio Gucci, Django Reinhardt, Mary of Teck, Emmerich Kálmán, and Hans Fritzsche. After him are Vladimir Tatlin, Ivan Bunin, Raoul Dufy, Erich Mendelsohn, Richard Walther Darré, and Hugo Sperrle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene O'Neill ranks 494 out of 20,380. Before him are Nick Nolte (1941), Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Dian Fossey (1932), Faye Dunaway (1941), Reese Witherspoon (1976), and James Coburn (1928). After him are Ray Kroc (1902), Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), Richard E. Byrd (1888), Francis Fukuyama (1952), and Bill Murray (1950).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Eugene O'Neill ranks 44. Before him are Sylvia Plath (1932), Philip Roth (1933), Frank Herbert (1920), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Susan Sontag (1933), and Jack Kerouac (1922). After him are Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Tom Clancy (1947), Alvin Toffler (1928), and Tennessee Williams (1911).

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