Louis Sheaffer

Louis Sheaffer (né Slung October 18, 1912 – August 7, 1993) was an American journalist for the ''Brooklyn Eagle'' between 1934 and 1955. After the newspaper's closure in 1955, Sheaffer wrote a two part biography on Eugene O'Neill and released the first volume ''O'Neill: Son and Playwright'' in 1968. The final part of Sheaffer's biography on O'Neill, titled ''O'Neill: Son and Artist'', was awarded the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and nominated for the 1974 National Book Award for Biography. Apart from the Pulitzer Prize, Sheaffer was a three-time Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and received over ten fellowships from MacDowell. Provided by Wikipedia