Desire Under The Elms Eugene O’Neill |American Literature
American Literature Desire Under The Elms Eugene O’Neill Eugene O’Neill : Life and Work Eugene O’Neill was born in 1888 in New York. His parents were devout Catholics, and his father James O'Neill was an actor-manager. The family travelled round the country with James O’Neill, but their home was unsettled in more ways than this. None of them were in good health, the father drank heavily and the mother took drugs. His education at Princeton University was cut short in 1906, when he was suspended before the final examination. In 1909, he married Katherine Jenkins, and was divorced in 1912. He lived a dissolute life, drinking and gambling, until his illness during the same year. In 1918 he married Agnes Boulton, and they had two children. In 1928, after his divorce, he married his third wife, Charlotte Monterary, an actress with whom he lived happily until his death . It was during his months of convalescence, around 1912, that he wrote the first...