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Basso Hamilton, from "The Tragic Sense,"" The New Yorker, February 28, March
6, and March 13, 1948. By permission of Hamilton Basso and The New Yorker.
Bodenheim Maxwell, from "Profile,"" The New Yorker, 1926. Clark Barrett H.,
Eugene O'Neill: The Man and His Plays.Copyright 1926, 1929 by Barrett H. Clark.
Copyright 1947, by Barrett H. Clark (revised version). By permission of Dover Pub-
lications, Inc. Cowley Malcolm from "A Weekend with Eugene O'Neill," The
Reporter, September 5, 1957. By permission of The Reporter & Malcolm Cowley.
Deutsch Helen and Hanau Stella, The Provincetown: A History of the Theatre. 1931,
Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. By permission of Helen Deutsch and Stella Hanau. Langer Lawrence
, The Magic Curtain. Copyright 1951, by Lawrence Langner. By permission of
Lawrence Langner.

Mullett Mary B., from "The Extraordinary Story of Eugene O'Neill,"" The Ameri-
can Magazine, November, 1922. By permission of The Crowell-Collier Publishing Com-
pany. Nathan George Jean The World of George Jean Nathan, edited and with an
introduction by Charles Angoff, 1952. By permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. O'Neill Eugene Gladstone
, Ile, Strange Interlude, Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, Ah,
Wilderness!, The Iceman Cometh, Moon for the Misbegotten, The Emperor Jones,
The Straw, and Lazarus Laughed. By permission of Random House, Inc. O'Neill Eugene Gladstone
Jr., "Poem," from The Helicon, 1930. By permission of Yale Univer-
sity. Prideaux Tom, from "Eugene O'Neill," Life, October 14, 1946. Copyright by
Time, Inc. By permission of Life Magazine.

Quinn Arthur Hobson, from History of American Drama from the Civil War to the
Present Day, vol. 2, 1927. By permission of Harper & Brothers. Skinner Richard Dana
, from Eugene O'Neill; A Poet's Quest, 1935. By permission of Longman's, Green &
Company. Vorse Mary Heaton, from Time and the Towne: A Provincetown Chronicle.
Copyright 1942 by the author and used by permission of the publisher, The Dial Press,
Inc. Wolfe Thomas, from Look Homeward, Angel, 1929. By permission of Charles
Scribner's Sons. Young Stark, from "Eugene O'Neill: Notes from a Critic's Diary,"
Harper's Magazine, June, 1957. By permission of Harper & Brothers.

From The New York Times: Atkinson J. Brooks, quotations from reviews of
The Fountain, Desire under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh,
and Long Day's Journey into Night. Daniel, Clifton: description of Oona Chaplin's ar-
rival in London, September, 1952. Obituary of James O'Neill, August 12, 1920. Story
on O'Neill's will, December 25, 1953. Kalodyne Louis, "O'Neill Lifts the Curtain on
His Early Days,"" December 21, 1924. Shriftgiesser Karl, The Iceman Cometh, October 6,
1946. S. J. Wolf, from "Eugene O'Neill Returns after Twelve Years," September 15, 1946.
Woolcott Alexander, 1920. By permission of The New York Times.

From The New York Herald Tribune: Karsner David, "O'Neill at Close Range
in Maine,"" August 8, 1926. Young, Marguerite, interview with O'Neill. Watts Richard, Jr.,
"Realism Doomed, O'Neill Believes," February 5, 1928. By permission of The New York
Herald-Tribune.

From The New York News: Pasley Fred, "Odyssey of Eugene O'Neill -- the
Ulysses of the Drama," January 24-30, 1932. Reynolds, Ruth, interview with Oona
O'Neill, July, 1942. By permission of The New York News.

From The New York Post: Dudar,Helen, interview with O'Neill. Copyright,
1946, New York Post Corporation. Dudar, Helen, interview with Shane O'Neill. Copyright
1956, New York Post Corporation. By permission of The New York Post.

From The New York World: Vorse Mary Heaton "Eugene O'Neill's Pet Saloon
Is Gone," May 4, 1930. Weaver John V. A., "I Knew Him When --," February 21, 1926.
News story on O'Neill's divorce, March 25, 1929. By permission of Jackson, Nash,
Brophy, Barringer, & Brooks.

Unpublished letters and papers of Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, by permission of Yale
University Library.

The pictures on the jacket are used by permission of Culver Service, Robert Ayles-
worth, and European Picture Service.

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