Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. Anna Christie opens in Johnny-the-Priest's saloon in New York's South Street Seaport. Among the denizens of the bar is Chris Christopherson, a good-natured middle-aged Swedish bargeman who enjoys his whiskey a little too much. Chris is involved with Marthy, a good-hearted but rather slatternly barfly. The reader will definitely adore this excellent story that still relevant today!
