Eugene O'Neill, the son who, like other major stars of James O'Neill, and actors of the time, spent his life on extended tours of the country, was born in New York City on October 16, 1888.
Eugene O'Neill traveled to Honduras in 1909 on a gold-prospecting expedition, to South America in 1910, sailing on one of the declining number of commercial wind-powered ships, and to England in 1911 on the crew of a passenger ship. In 1912, when he was 24, he fell ill with tuberculosis. In the sanitarium, for the first time, he was forced to pause.
His illness was quickly arrested. During his convalescence, Eugene began to write plays, testing himself in the theatrical world he had long watched from the wings. In the summer of 1916, he joined a group of amateur actors who staged his short play about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, with such success that his play writing ambitions were affirmed. Critical and popular success followed rapidly. In 1920 he received the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes for the tragedy Beyond the Horizon, a play that combined the real and the poetic in a manner that Broadway playgoers had not seen before.
O'Neill rapidly became known as America's most exciting dramatist. During the early years in California, O'Neill worked single-mindedly, at times almost desperately, on a historical cycle of 11 plays about the history of a single family. But, he was plagued with health problems and the overwhelming task he had set himself was draining him of energy and spirit. After completing A Touch of the Poet, he shelved the cycle and in rapid succession wrote the autobiographical plays that rank among the highest achievements of the English speaking theater: The Iceman Cometh, Hughie, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Long Day's Journey into Night. For the last play, he received his fourth Pulitzer Prize, awarded posthumously following the New York premiere in 1956.
O'Neill never completed another play after 1943. A worsening tremor in his hands slowly robbed him of the ability to write, and he found himself blocked when he was unable to set pencil to paper. The coming of World War II cut off life support systems at his residence at Tao House in Danville, California: servants were unavailable, and neither of the O'Neills could drive. Suffering from a rare degenerative disease, O'Neill had to leave his sanctuary and once again move on. In a hotel room in Boston, he destroyed the drafts and notes for his unfinished plays. Effectively silenced by illness, O'Neill died in Boston in 1953.
Drag each label to the correct location on the chart.
Based on the context of the passage, match each word with its meaning.

Prospecting
Convalescence
Posthumously
Degenerative
Causing the body to become weaker
After someone's death
Gradual recovery of health after illness
An opportunity for something to happen