Editing Eugene O'Neill (section)

==Family life==

[[File:Eugene O'Neill 1936.jpg|thumb|right|O'Neill in the mid-1930s. He received the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1936]]
O'Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909, to 1912, during which time they had one son, [[Eugene O'Neill, Jr.]] (1910–1950). In 1917, O'Neill met [[Agnes Boulton]], a successful writer of commercial fiction, and they married on April 12, 1918. They lived in a home owned by her parents in [[Point Pleasant, New Jersey]], after their marriage.<ref>Cheslow, Jerry. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-point-pleasant-nj-borough-with-variety-boating.html "If You're Thinking of Living In/Point Pleasant, N.J.; A Borough With a Variety of Boating"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 9, 2003. Accessed January 25, 2015. "The most famous Point Pleasant resident was Eugene O'Neill, who married a local girl named Agnes Boulton and grumbled about being bored through the winter of 1918-19, as he lived rent free in a home owned by Agnes's parents."</ref> The years of their marriage—during which the couple lived in [[Connecticut]] and [[Bermuda]] and had two children, Shane and [[Oona O'Neill|Oona]]—are described vividly in her 1958 memoir ''Part of a Long Story''. They divorced on July 2, 1929, after O'Neill abandoned Boulton and the children, for the actress [[Carlotta Monterey]]. O'Neill and Carlotta married less than a month after he officially divorced his previous wife.<ref>{{cite news|title=Eugene O'Neill Wed to Miss Monterey|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/07/24/archives/eugene-oneill-wed-to-miss-monterey-playwright-married-in-paris-to.html|page=9|work=The New York Times|date=July 24, 1929|access-date=November 13, 2008}}</ref>

In 1929, O'Neill and Monterey moved to the [[Loire Valley]] in central France, where they lived in the Château du Plessis in [[Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher]], Indre-et-Loire. During the early 1930s they returned to the United States and lived in [[Sea Island, Georgia]], at a house called Casa Genotta. He moved to [[Danville, California]], in 1937 and lived there until 1944. His house there, ''Tao House'', is today the [[Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site]].

In their first years together, Monterey organized O'Neill's life, enabling him to devote himself to writing. She later became addicted to [[potassium bromide]], and the marriage deteriorated, resulting in a number of separations, although they never divorced.

[[File:Chaplin family 1961.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|The Chaplins and six of their eight children (Jane and [[Christopher Chaplin|Christopher]] are absent) in 1961. From left to right: [[Geraldine Chaplin|Geraldine]], [[Eugene Chaplin|Eugene]], [[Victoria Chaplin|Victoria]], [[Charlie Chaplin|Chaplin]], [[Oona O'Neill]], Annette, [[Josephine Chaplin|Josephine]] and [[Michael Chaplin (actor)|Michael]].]]In 1943, O'Neill disowned his daughter [[Oona O'Neill|Oona]] for marrying the English actor, director, and producer [[Charlie Chaplin]] when she was 18 and Chaplin was 54. He never saw Oona again.<ref>Ranald, p. 118; Sheaffer, p. 623 and 658.</ref> Through his daughter, O'Neill had eight grandchildren whom he never met.

He also had distant relationships with his sons. [[Eugene O'Neill Jr.]], a [[Yale]] classicist, suffered from alcoholism and committed suicide in 1950 at the age of 40. Shane O'Neill became a heroin addict and moved into the family home in Bermuda, ''Spithead,'' with his new wife, where he supported himself by selling off the furnishings. He was disowned by his father before also committing suicide (by jumping out of a window) a number of years later. Oona ultimately inherited Spithead and the connected estate (subsequently known as the Chaplin Estate).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bermuda-online.org/seewark.htm|title=Bermuda's Warwick Parish}}</ref> In 1950 O'Neill joined [[The Lambs]], the famed theater club.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Child
! Date of birth
! Date of death
|-
| [[Eugene O'Neill Jr.]]
| May 5, 1910
| September 25, 1950
|-
| Shane O'Neill
| October 30, 1919
| June 23, 1977
|-
| [[Oona O'Neill]]
| May 14, 1925
| September 27, 1991
|}