Strange Interlude
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The groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize–winning drama following the private life of a professor's daughter, by the playwright famed for The Iceman Cometh. Nina Leeds, the daughter of a classics professor at a New England college, has had her dreams shattered by the Great War, in which her fiancé perished. In her grief, she sets out on an aimless path of sordid affairs while rejecting a devoted admirer. When she finally does marry, it is to a pleasant, trusting fellow named Sam. But when she hears deeply upsetting news while carrying his baby, her shock leads her on a deceptive path that will cast a shadow over their relationship, and the rest of Nina's life. Debuting on Broadway in 1928 with Lynn Fontanne in the starring role, Strange Interlude earned Nobel laureate Eugene O'Neill one of his four Pulitzer Prizes, and remains one of his most daring and interesting works.
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) was an American playwright whose dramatic innovations transformed the American stage. Born in New York City to a theatrical family, he drew upon his experiences at sea, his troubled family relationships, and his fascination with psychology and human suffering to create works of extraordinary emotional depth. He received four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and became the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1936. His major works include *The Emperor Jones*, *Anna Christie*, *Desire Under the Elms*, *Strange Interlude*, *Mourning Becomes Electra*, *The Iceman Cometh*, and *Long Day's Journey into Night*. His plays brought psychological realism, experimental dramatic techniques, and tragic ambition to American theater.
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