Robert M. Dowling

ROBERT M. DOWLING is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. His biography, Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard, will be released on November 4, 2025, by Scribner Publishers, and his acclaimed biography, Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts (Yale University Press, 2014), was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. Dowling's other books include Conversations with Sam Shepard (co-edited with Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig, 2021); Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (2007); the two-volume Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill (2009); the anthology Eugene O'Neill and His Contemporaries: Bohemians, Radicals, Progressives, and the Avant Garde (co-edited with Eileen Herrmann, 2011); and a compendium of opening night reviews, Eugene O'Neill: The Contemporary Reviews (co-edited with Jackson R. Bryer, 2014). Dowling also edited the folio for the online journal Drunken Boat, "Celtic Twilight: 21st-Century Irish Americans on Eugene O'Neill" (2010). He has published articles in The Irish Times, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Drunken Boat, The Dramatist, and The Eugene O'Neill Review, among many other publications. Dowling serves on the editorial board of The Eugene O'Neill Review and the board of directors of the Eugene O'Neill International Society.