Eugene O'Neill and Dat Ole Davil Sea, Robert A. Richter, 2004, Again

Some data points

• America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright; four Pulitzer prizes;
• Born 1888
• His father, James O'Neill, 1883, assumes role of Edmund Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo; continues for 20 years (~ 1903)
• James O'Neill, b. 1878
• Edmund O'Neill, b. 1883
• Edmund dies in 1885, from measles, 2 years old
• Eugene O'Neill, b. 1888 (thus 2 of 3 boys survive childhood) -- James 10 years older than Eugene; they whored around the summer after Eugene graduates from high school (ages 17 and 27)
• "James Tyrone" confesses regret over his life's choice to his son Edmund Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, set in New London, in 1912
• Eugene grew up in New London, CT; on the river Thames; 
• 19 of 45 plays authorized for publication/produced associated with maritime world

• Would have been rocked to sleep, mesmerized by the New London Lighthouse; guided shipping to the mouth of the Thames, it tormented "Mary Tyrone" in Long Day's Journey into Night; for some, foghorns keep people awake; Eugene said foghorns put him to sleep; 
• 0 - 7: accompanied his parents on theatrical tours; summers in New London on the river
• 7 - 12: St Aloysius, Mount St Vincent, north of Manhattan, Riverdale section of the Bronx, Hudson river; one of two favorite books: Captains Courageous, published 1897; would have just come out
• 12 - 14: De La Salle Academy, NYC, day student; with parents in a residential hotel
• 14 - 17: Betts Academy, Stamford, CT, private; elite; only 60 pupils; graduates at age 17; enjoyed Betts
• Summer of 1905, after graduation; whores around with 27-y/o brother Jamie; immortalizes brothel madame Addie Burns, Bradley Street, with "Mamie Burns" in Long Day's Journey into Night; 

To be continued