num_pages: 179
description: Long Day's Journey Into Night is the story of one devastating day in the Tyrone family. The play is autobiographical, and O'Neill draws his drug-addicted mother, his close-fisted father, his drunken and degenerate elder brother, and his tormented self, with terrifying veracity.
language: English
title: Long Day's Journey into Night
titlecomplete: Long Day's Journey into Night
characters: Mary Tyrone, Jamie Tyrone, Edmund Tyrone, James Tyrone
genres: 20th Century, American, Theatre, Nobel Prize, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 40202
places: Connecticut
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: -410198400000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Yale University Press