Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was born in 1888 and died in 1953. As a boy he was on the New London waterfront in 1895, and the Monte Cristo Cottage on 325 Pequot Avenue was his boyhood home. He was the only American dramatist to win the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzer Prizes. O'Neill was the first American playwright to win international acclaim and stands with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Shaw as a master of modern drama. His plays include The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ali, Wilderness!, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day's Journey into Night.