A master can tell you what he expects of you.A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.

Playwright                          

Selected Works:

Full-length plays:

Bread and Butter - 1914
Servitude - 1914
The Personal Equation - 1915
Now I Ask You - 1916
Beyond the Horizon - 1918 - Pulitzer Prize - 1920
The Straw - 1919
Chris Christophersen - 1919
Gold - 1920
Anna Christie - 1920 - Pulitzer Prize - 1922
The Emperor Jones - 1920
Diff'rent - 1921
The First Man - 1922
The Hairy Ape - 1922
The Fountain - 1923
Marco Millions - 1923–25
All God's Chillun Got Wings - 1924
Welded - 1924
Desire Under the Elms - 1925
Lazarus Laughed - 1925–26
The Great God Brown - 1926
Strange Interlude - 1928 - Pulitzer Prize
Dynamo - 1929
Mourning Becomes Electra - 1931
Ah, Wilderness! - 1933
Days Without End - 1933
The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, published 1940, first performed 1946
Hughie, written 1941, first performed 1959
Long Day's Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956 - Pulitzer Prize 1957
A Moon for the Misbegotten, written 1941-1943, first performed 1947
A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958
More Stately Mansions, second draft found in O'Neill's papers, first performed 1967
The Calms of Capricorn, published in 1983

One-act plays:

The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship Glencairn -- filmed together as The Long Voyage Home:
Bound East for Cardiff - 1914
In The Zone - 1917
The Long Voyage Home - 1917
Moon of the Caribbees - 1918
Other one-act plays include:
A Wife for a Life - 1913
The Web - 1913
Thirst - 1913
Recklessness - 1913
Warnings - 1913
Fog - 1914
Abortion - 1914
The Movie Man: A Comedy - 1914
The Sniper - 1915
Before Breakfast - 1916
Ile - 1917
The Rope - 1918
Shell Shock - 1918
The Dreamy Kid - 1918
Where the Cross Is Made - 1918

Other Works:

The Last Will and Testament of An Extremely Distinguished Dog - 1940                          

Mother Mary Ellen Quinlan
Father James O'Neill.
O'Neill's parents and elder brother Jamie, who drank himself to death at the age of 45, died within three years of one another.
First wife Kathleen Jenkins - 1909-1912, one son, Eugene Jr
Second wife Agnes Boulton - 1918-1929, two children, Shane and Oona. O'Neill abandoned his wife and children for:
Third wife Carlotta Monterey - 1929-1953

Oona, a daughter from his secondd marriage, married Charlie Chaplin. He never saw Oona again.

He also had distant relationships with his sons, Eugene, Jr., a Yale classicist who suffered from alcoholism, and committed suicide in 1950 at the age of 40, and Shane O'Neill, a heroin addict who also committed suicide.