Eugene O’Neill’s Writing Desk

When Eugene O’Neill built and moved into Tao House in Danville, CA in 1937, he had already won three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and a Nobel Prize for Literature, the only American playwright to win a Nobel for literature to this day. During the seven years O’Neill wrote on this desk at Tao House, he would pen plays that would provide the foundation for modern American drama, including “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” which was awarded O’Neill’s fourth Pulitzer Prize posthumously. Today, during the Eugene O’Neill Festival at Tao House, visitors have the unique experience of witnessing O’Neill’s plays in the shadow of the study where American theater was transformed.