Yale Press to Publish Eugene O'Neill's EXORCISM

According to the NY Times, Yale University Press wil publish Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical, one-act play- EXORCISM. The play, which was written by O'Neill soon after a failed suicide attempt in 1912, was believed to have been destroyed, but will be available in book form in February.

O'Neill biographer Arthur Gelb told the NYT: "The play is not one of his proudest moments, but it's important for biographers in revealing a crucial part of O'Neill's life. It's a clue to his character and to the kind of pain and torture he goes through his whole life." 

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O'Neill's best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (Pulitzer Prize 1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness!, a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been. In 1936 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. After a ten-year pause, O'Neill's now-renowned play The Iceman Cometh was produced in 1946. The following year's A Moon for the Misbegotten failed, and did not gain recognition as being among his best works until decades later.

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