Retire Under the Elms

I figured it was about time to resurrect (so to speak) my famous-grave series. New England is the final resting place of many literary figures, including Eugene O'Neill, who was awarded four Pulitzer prizes and who is America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Some of his better known plays include The Iceman Cometh, Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. More info on the life and death of O'Neill here.

I've noticed that it's common for visitors to leave pens at the graves of writers. Interesting, huh?






Past famous-grave blips:

Louisa May Alcott - author of Little Women

Jack Kerouac - Beat Generation poet/writer

Henry David Thoreau - American writer and philosopher

Nathaniel Hawthorne - author of The Scarlet Letter

Edwin Land - inventor of polarized lenses, filters, and the Polaroid camera

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poet

and Thoreau (again)