Robert M DowlingRobert M. Dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem and the biography Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts, which was a Los Angles Times Book Prize Finalist for biography in 2015. He has also coedited the 2021 compendium of interviews Conversations with Sam Shepard. As an authority on American drama, he has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, among other media venues. He serves on the editorial board of The Eugene O'Neill Review and is an elected Board member of the Eugene O'Neill Society (President of the Society, 2018-2021). Read More Read Less