Having intensely honed a unique writing style in Paris in the early 1920s, Ernest Hemingway was on the verge of a breakthrough by the middle of the decade. In June of 1926 – not yet 27 years old – Hemingway drafted a letter to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons, instructing him to [...]

In fewer than 25 years, Eugene O’Neill wrote 20 plays and won four Pulitzer Prizes. The triumphant author of such innovative works as The Iceman Cometh , A Touch of the Poet and the autobiographical masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night , O’Neill once described writing as his “vacation from living.” Award-winning director Ric Burns, [...]