关于作者尤金·奥尼尔(Eugene O’Neill,1888~1953年)美国著名剧作家,表现主义文学的代表作家,美国民族戏剧的奠基人。他4次获普利策奖,并于1936年获诺贝尔文学奖。他一生创作了45个剧本,题材广泛,风格多样。由于他的努力,美国的戏剧事业得以在20世纪20年代发展起来,成为美国文化领域中堪与小说、绘画、音乐作品相提并论的艺术形式,因而被公认为美国最重要的戏剧作家。 About the author Eugene O’Neill (1888~1953), a famous American playwright, a representative writer of expressionist literature, and a founder of American national drama. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. He created 45 plays throughout his life, with a wide range of topics and diverse styles. As a result of his efforts, the dramatic cause of the United States developed in the 1920s and became an art form comparable to fiction, painting, and musical works in the American cultural field. Therefore, it was recognized as the most important American dramatist.