$1 Eugene O'Neill single
Object Details
- Description
- This Prominent Americans Issue stamp depicts Eugene O’Neill, an Irish-American playwright. After expulsion from Princeton University, O’Neill spent several years working on a seaman aboard ships. While he was being treated for tuberculosis at a sanatorium, he became to write plays. Four of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
- United States; New York; Eugene O’Neill; Princeton University; Ireland; seaman; ship; sea; tuberculosis; depression; alcoholism; playwright; play; writer; Pulitzer Prize; Nobel Prize; literature; art; portrait
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- October 16, 1967
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5576
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Depicts
- Eugene O'Neill, American, 1888 - 1953
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (dull purple); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1294
- Topic
- Stars of Stage & Screen
- Literature
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5576
