Long Day's Journey Into Night/Trivia
- Write Who You Know: Where to begin? Everyone is directly based on his real family and even share their first names: O'Neill's father was a famous Melodrama actor named James; his addict mother's first name was Mary, although she went by Ella; and his older brother was James Jr. (Jamie). There's even a fleeting reference to the dead infant son being named Eugene -- essentially O'Neill swaps names with Edmund the Author Avatar, the actual name for his dead sibling.