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May 19, 1981 · William Saroyan, whose plays, short stories and novels drew on the Armenian immigrant experience and depicted the variety and romance of American life, died of cancer yesterday at the Veterans...
Over the last twenty years of his life Saroyan concentrated on personal memoirs. 1966 Saroyan forms the William Saroyan Foundation. 1968 Saroyan publishes I Used to Believe I Had Forever, Now I’m Not So Sure. 1979 Saroyan publishes Obituaries. 1980 William Saroyan is nominated for the American Book Award for Obituaries.
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May 11, 2018 · views 2,754,268 updated May 18 2018. Saroyan, William (1908–81) US novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist. Saroyan followed the success of his first play, My Heart's in the Highlands (1939), with the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life (1939) and the autobiographical My Name is Aram (1940).
William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. These stories were popular during the Great Depression and reflected the immigrant experience and the struggles of that time.
Works of American writer William Saroyan include short stories, such as "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1934), plays, most notably The Time of Your Life (1939), and novels. This Armenian author set much in Fresno, sometimes under a fictional name, the center of life in California.
William Saroyan ( / səˈrɔɪən /; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy.
William Saroyan was a world-renowned writer of plays, short stories and novels, and one of the most highly esteemed writers of his generation. He burst upon the literary scene in 1934 at age 26 when his short story The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze was published in Story magazine to critical acclaim, followed by the publication by ...
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