O'Neill, Eugene [Gladstone] (1888-1953), dramatist, entered Princeton in the fall of 1906 as a member of the Class of 1910 but, after encountering disciplinary as well as scholastic difficulties, left at the end of freshman year without taking final examinations. He worked for a mail-order house and then went to sea. Later he was a newspaper reporter and studied for a time in George Pierce Baker's celebrated '47 Workshop at Harvard before embarking on the career that brought him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.
From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton
University Press (1978).
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