A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Synge, John Millington

by John William Cousin

Synge, John Millington (1871-1909).—Miscellaneous writer, b. near Dublin, ed. privately and at Trinity Coll., Dublin. He wrote Riders to the Sea, In the Shadow of the Glen (1905), The Well of the Saints (1905), The Play Boy of the Western World (1907), and The Aran Islands (1907).