Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

This collection of thirty years of interviews with America’s only Nobel Prize dramatist records his encounters with the press and gives a striking portrait of the man and the process of his public mythologizing.<P>A profoundly private individual O’Neill struggled throughout his life to overcome his intense discomfort with oral discourse as he responded to the probings of interviewers wishing him to discuss a wide range of social political literary and theatrical issues.<P>Collected in their entirety for the first time these interviews begin in 1920 when O’Neill was thirty-two. Serious American drama for many began and for many others ended with Eugene O’Neill. This collection lends new testimony to the truth of that assertion.