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Article: Eugene O'Neill in Buenos Aires.
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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"O'Neill's time of dereliction in Buenos Aires was important to an understanding of the genius down and out on the beach, and the creative seeds that were planted in him at the time for his writing to come."--Arthur Gelb, letter to editor of Buenos Aires Herald
Arthur Gelb's remark sparked my renewed interest in the life and writings of Eugene O'Neill, the man who revolutionized theater in the United States and the only U.S. playwright to win the Nobel Prize. Gelb, formerly a theater critic for the New York Times, and his wife co-authored the most substantial recent biography of the playwright, O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo (Applause Books, 2000). This ...