Eugene O’Neill’s Revenge On A Provincetown Librarian

Pulitizer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill was known for modeling characters in his plays after people from his own life.

But what he did to a Provincetown librarian proved that he could be a cruel and vindictive man.

Abbie Putnam ran the Provincetown library during the days when O’Neill and his entourage of Greenwich Village friends summered in the east end. She was an eccentric and legendary personality