Louis Sheaffer (1913-1993) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of the playwright Eugene O'Neill. He won the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1974 for "O'Neill, Son and Artist," which came out in 1973 as the second of two volumes, on which he had worked for 16 years. The first volume, "O'Neill, Son and Playwright" (Athena), appeared in 1968. He was a Guggenheim fellow three times and received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first volume of his O'Neill biography won a George Freedley Award from the Theater Library Association.
Discipline:
Literature
Louis Sheaffer
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Brooklyn Heights, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988
Studios
Banks
Louis Sheaffer worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…