O'Neill, Eugene: 1888-1953
Long Day's Journey Into Night, 1941 - Background
- Completed in 1940, Long Day's Journey Into the Night is an autobiographical play. Eugene O'Neill wrote that - because of the highly personal writing about his family - it was not to be released until 25 years after his death. But since O'Neill's immediate family had died in the early 1920s, his wife allowed publication of the play in 1956.