Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night is a tragedy play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1941–42, first published in 1956. The play is seen to be his best work and one of the best American plays of the 20th century.

Long Day's Journey into Night
Written by	Eugene O'Neill
Characters	Mary Cavan Tyrone James Tyrone Edmund Tyrone James Tyrone Jr. Cathleen
Date of premiere	2 February 1956
Place of premiere	Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm, Sweden
Original language	English
Subject	An autobiographical account of his explosive home life with a morphine-addicted mother and alcoholic father.
Genre	Tragedy[1][2][3][4]
Setting	The summer home of the Tyrones, August 1912

O'Neill posthumously won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Long Day's Journey into Night.