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A Short Biography of William Saroyan

Author Name:

William Saroyan

Born As:

William Saroyan

Other Names:

William Saroyan

Born:

31 Aug 1908

Died:

18 May 1981




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Novelist and playwright                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze - 1935
Inhale and Exhale - 1936
Three Times Three - 1936
Little Children - 1937
The Trouble With Tigers - 1938
Love Here Is My Hat - 1938
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse - 1938
My Name Is Aram - 1940
The Human Comedy - 1943
The Adventures of Wesley Jackson - 1946
Rock Wagram - 1951
Tracy's Tiger - 1952
The Laughing Matter - 1953
Love - 1955
Mama I Love You - 1956
Papa You're Crazy - 1957
Here Comes, There Goes, You Know Who - 1962
Gaston - 1962
One Day in the Afternoon of the World - 1964
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands and other stories - 1968
Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon - 1970
Places Where I've Done Time 1972 - original printing possibly 1957
Chance Meetings - 1978
Obituaries - 1979
Births - 1983
My name is Saroyan - 1983
An Armenian Trilogy - 1986
Madness in the Family - 1988
Boys and Girls Together - 1995

Plays:

The Time of Your Life - 1939 - winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
My Heart's in the Highlands - 1939
Elmer and Lily - 1939
The Agony of Little Nations - 1940
Hello Out There - 1941
Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning - 1941
The Beautiful People - 1941
Bad Men in the West - 1942
Talking to You - 1942
Coming Through the Rye - 1942
Don't Go Away Mad - 1947
The Slaughter of the Innocents - 1952
The Oyster And The Pearl - Television Play - 1953
The Stolen Secret - 1954
The Cave Dwellers - 1958
Sam, The Highest Jumper Of Them All, or the London Comedy - 1960
Hanging around the Wabash - 1961
The Dogs, or the Paris Comedy - 1969
Armenian - 1971
Assassinations - 1974
Tales from the Vienna Streets - 1980
The Parsley Garden - 1992

Short stories:

"Third day after Christmas" - 1926
"Resurrection of a Life" - 1935
"Gaston" - date unknown
"An Ornery Kind of Kid"
"The Parsley Garden"
"The Shepherd's Daughter"
"The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter"
"The Mourner"
"Three Ripe Pears"
"Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart"

Song:

"Come On-a My House", a hit for Rosemary Clooney, based on an Armenian folk song, written with his cousin, Ross Bagdasarian, later the impresario of Alvin and the Chipmunks.                          
Wife Carol Marcus, two children, Aran and Lucy.                          
Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 1940