CA SR122

Honors Eugene Gladstone O'Neill on the 65th anniversary of his death on November 27, 1953, at age 65.

Recognizes O'Neill as America's most honored playwright who wrote 38 plays and won three Pulitzer Prizes during his lifetime for "Beyond the Horizon," "Anna Christie," and "Strange Interlude."

Acknowledges O'Neill's California residence at Tao House in Danville, where he wrote his three greatest works: "The Iceman Cometh," "Long Day's Journey Into Night," and "A Moon for the Misbegotten," the latter earning a fourth posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

Notes O'Neill was the first and only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, with his plays continuously performed worldwide.

Directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit copies of the resolution for appropriate distribution.