Eugene O'Neill as Nobel Laureate and Four-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner

This volume presents a new look at American dramatist celebrity Eugene O'Neill,recipient of the Nobel Literature award and four Pulitzer Prizes for drama. The bookconcentrates on the question under which circumstances he won the top national andinternational recognitions. So it is important to know the detailed praise of his worksby the Swedish Academy, resulting in the Nobel award of 1936. In a similar way, allPulitzer Prize Drama Jury reports could be consulted to explain how the decision-makingprocesses of the committees went, leading to his four Pulitzer decorations in1920, 1924, 1928 and posthumously, in 1956. In addition, O'Neill's main documentsof honors, for the very first time in a book, are facsimile reprinted: his Nobel PrizeDiploma, his four Pulitzer Prize Certificates, and his honorary doctorate from YaleUniversity.Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritusat the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.