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03391aam a22004338i 4500 001 605933748B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 160308s2016 nyu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2016008421 020 $a 0399159118 020 $a 9780399159114 035 $a (OCoLC)944339707 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3529 N5 Z6527 2016 100 1 $a Gelb, Arthur, $d 1924-2014. 245 10 $a By women possessed : $b a life of Eugene O'Neill / $c Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb. 263 $a 1610 264 1 $a New York : $b G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House, $c 2016. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a "A Marian Wood book." 520 2 $a "Celebrated for their books on Eugene O'Neill and enjoying access to a trove of previously sealed archival material, the Gelbs deliver their final volume on the stormy life and brilliant oeuvre of this Nobel Prize-winning American playwright. This is a tour through both a magical moment in American theater and the troubled life of a genius. Not a peep show or a celebrity gossip fest, this book is a brilliant investigation of the emotional knots that ensnared one of our most important playwrights. Handsome, charming when he wanted to be, O'Neill was the flame women were drawn to--all, that is, except his mother, who never let him forget he was unwanted. By Women Possessed follows O'Neill through his great successes, the failures he was able to shrug off, and the long eclipse, a twelve-year period in which, despite the Nobel, nothing he wrote was produced. But ahead lay his greatest achievements: The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night. Both were ahead of their time and both received lukewarm receptions. It wasn't until after his death that his widow, the keeper of the flame, began a fierce and successful campaign to restore his reputation. The result is that today, just over 125 years after his birth, O'Neill is a towering presence in the theater, his work--always in performance here and abroad--still electrifying audiences. Perhaps of equal importance, he is the acknowledged father of modern American theater, the man who paved the way for the likes of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and a host of others. But, as Williams has said, at a cost: 'O'Neill gave birth to the American theater and died for it'"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part I: Upheaval -- Part II: About Agnes -- Part III: Mistress, Secretary, Wife, and Mother -- Part IV: "Time's Winged Chariot" -- Part V: Unraveling -- Epilogue -- Chronology of Plays (Writing and First Production). 600 10 $a O'Neill, Eugene, $d 1888-1953. 600 10 $a O'Neill, Eugene, $d 1888-1953 $x Relations with women. 650 0 $a Dramatists, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 700 1 $a Gelb, Barbara. 941 $a 6 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702022451.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020021457.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013055.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006105009.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304032007.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20170121011433.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=605933748B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search