Eugene O'Neill, a 20-year-old American playwright, marries his first wife, Kathleen Jenkins, in 1909.
Kathleen Jenkins, O'Neill's first wife, hardly saw him after they married. Jenkins, who was used to a humdrum social milieu of tea and dinner parties, met O'Neill when she was 20 and fell in love with the exotic guy who wrote her poems. O'Neill sailed for Honduras almost soon after they married in a private ceremony in October 1909. When he went to New York, he forgot to tell his new spouse, therefore evading his duties to her and their son Eugene Jr.
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