The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
The Assembled Playwright exhibition presents highlights from the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O’Neill. The exhibition includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, playbills, posters, inscribed books, and other unique and rare materials by and pertinent to the Nobel Prize-winning playwright.
By placing his impressive collection at Washington University, alumni Harley Hammerman has made the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections an important center for O’Neill studies.
The University Libraries will be honoring Hammerman and celebrating the collection with a Eugene O’Neill symposium on October 6, 2023.
This exhibition was organized by Modern Literature Collection and Manuscripts Curator Joel Minor.
The exhibition catalog is available online as a PDF; please contact Joel Minor if you would like a printed version mailed to you.
Header Image Credit: Carlotta and Eugene O’Neill in Le Plessis, France, 1930. The photographer is unknown.
Eugene O’Neill Symposium
The Eugene O’Neill Symposium was a one-day symposium on October 6, 2023, to officially open the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O’Neill. This symposium constituted the first day of the 2023 Conference for Irish Studies Midwest Regional Conference (ACIS).
