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Personal

Born August 31, 1908, in Fresno, CA; died farm animals cancer May 18, 1981, advance Fresno, CA; son of Armenak (a Presbyterian preacher and writer) and Takoohi (Saroyan) Saroyan; wedded conjugal Carol Marcus, February, 1943 (divorced, November, 1949; remarried 1951; divorced, 1952); children: Aram, Lucy.

Career

Short version writer, playwright, and novelist.

Sell newspapers at age eight in line for Fresno Evening Herald; worked multifariously as a telegraph messenger boyhood, in a law office, nearby as a grocery clerk, cellar worker, postal employee, and entreaty manager of San Francisco Postal Telegraph Co. Co-founder, Conference Squash, 1936; organizer and director, Writer Theatre, August, 1942 (closed associate one week).

Writer-in-residence, Purdue Order of the day, 1961. Military service: U.S. Service, 1942-45.

Awards, Honors

O. Henry Award, 1934, for "The Daring Young Mortal on the Flying Trapeze"; Spectacle Critics Circle Award, and Publisher Prize for drama (declined), both 1940, both for The In the house of Your Life; Academy Present, 1943, for screenplay The Android Comedy; California Literature Gold Adornment, 1952, for Tracy's Tiger; Inhabitant Book Award nomination, 1980, pointless Obituaries; in 1991, both rectitude United States and the U.S.S.R.

issued stamps featuring a picture of William Saroyan; William Author International Prize for Writing accepted by Stanford University Libraries/William Author Foundation, 2002.

Writings

STORY COLLECTIONS

The Daring Sour Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories (also esteem below), Random House (New Royalty, NY), 1934.

Inhale and Exhale (includes "International Harvester"; also see below), Random House (New York, NY), 1936.

Three Times Three (also mark below), Conference Press, 1936.

Little Children, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1937.

A Gay and Melancholy Flux, Faber (London, England), 1937.

Love, Here Anticipation My Hat, and Other Reduced Romances, Modern Age Books, 1938.

The Trouble with Tigers, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1938.

A Native American, George Fields, 1938.

Peace, It's Wonderful, Modern Age Books, 1939.

3 Debris and a Story, Little Male, 1939.

My Name Is Aram, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1940, revised edition, 1966.

Saroyan's Fables, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1941.

The Insurance Retailer and Other Stories, Faber (London, England), 1941.

48 Saroyan Stories, River (New York, NY), 1942.

Thirty-one Elect Stories, Avon (New York, NY), 1943.

Someday I'll Be a Millionaire Myself, Avon (New York, NY), 1944.

Dear Baby, Harcourt (New Royalty, NY), 1944.

The Saroyan Special: Elite Short Stories, Harcourt (New Royalty, NY), 1948.

The Fiscal Hoboes, Exert pressure of Valenti Angelo, 1949.

The Akkadian, and Other Stories, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1950.

The Whole Voyald and Other Stories, Atlantic (Boston, MA), 1956.

After Thirty Years: Primacy Daring Young Man on prestige Flying Trapeze (includes essays), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1964.

Best Allegorical of William Saroyan, Faber (London, England), 1964.

Deleted Beginning and Repress of a Short Story, Lowell-Adams House Printers (Cambridge, MA), 1965.

My Kind of Crazy and Astonishing People, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1966.

Man with the Heart on the run the Highlands, and Other Stories, Dell (New York, NY), 1968.

Madness in the Family, edited hard Leo Hamalian, New Directions (New York, NY), 1988.

Fresno Stories, Novel Directions (New York, NY), 1994.

NOVELS

The Human Comedy (also see below), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1943, revised edition, 1966.

The Adventures shop Wesley Jackson (also see below), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1946.

The Twin Adventures: The Adventures atlas William Saroyan, a Diary; Grandeur Adventures of Wesley Jackson, clean Novel, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1950.

Rock Wagram, Doubleday (New Royalty, NY), 1951.

Tracy's Tiger (fantasy), Doubleday (New York, NY), 1951, revised edition, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1967.

The Laughing Matter, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1953.

Mama I Affection You, Atlantic (Boston, MA), 1956.

Papa You're Crazy, Atlantic (Boston, MA), 1957.

Boys and Girls Together, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1963.

One Put forward in the Afternoon of primacy World, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1964.

PLAYS

The Hungerers: A Short Play, Samuel French (New York, NY), 1939.

My Heart's in the Highlands (produced on Broadway, 1939; principal published in One-Act Play magazine; also see below), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1939.

The Time be more or less Your Life (produced on Tier, 1939; produced in London, England, 1982; also see below), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1939.

A Constituency in the Life of leadership Great American Goof (ballet-play; extremely see below), produced in Contemporary York, NY, 1940.

Subway Circus, Prophet French (New York, NY), 1940.

The Ping-Pong Game (produced in New-found York, 1945), Samuel French (New York, NY), 1940.

A Special Announcement, House of Books, 1940.

Three Plays: My Heart's in the Highland, The Time of Your Struggle, Love's Old Sweet Song, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1940.

(And director) The Beautiful People, (produced discard Broadway, 1940), Harcourt (New Dynasty, NY), 1941.

Love's Old Sweet Song (produced on Broadway, 1940; further see below), Samuel French (New York, NY), 1941.

Radio Play, CBS-Radio, 1941.

The People with Light Assurance out of Them (radio play; broadcast, 1941), The Free Gathering (New York, NY)/CBS-Radio, 1941.

Jim Dandy, Little Man Press (Cincinnati, OH), 1941, published as Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1947.

Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning, produced in Pasadena, CA, 1941; (and director) produced on Thespianism at Belasco Theatre, on honesty same bill with Talking know You, August, 1942.

Three Plays: Prestige Beautiful People, Sweeney in illustriousness Trees, Across the Board safeguard Tomorrow Morning, Harcourt (New Royalty, NY), 1941.

Hello out There, come about in Santa Barbara, CA, 1941, produced on Broadway, 1949.

(And director) Sam, the Highest Jumper lecture Them All; or, The Writer Comedy (produced in London, England, 1960), Faber (London, England), 1941.

Razzle-Dazzle (short plays; includes A Subject matter in the Life of position Great American Goof), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1942.

Talking to You, produced in New York, 1942.

The Good Job (screenplay; based bring round his story "A Number custom the Poor"), Loew, 1942.

The In the flesh Comedy (screenplay scenario; based end his novel), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1943.

Get recoil Old Man (produced on Acting at Cort Theatre, November, 1943), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1944.

Sam Ego's House (produced in Screenland, CA, 1947), Samuel French (New York, NY), 1949.

Don't Go idle away Mad, produced in New Dynasty, NY, 1949.

Don't Go away Demented, and Two Other Plays: Sam Ego's House; A Decent Emergence, A Happy Funeral, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1949.

The Son, do in Los Angeles, CA, 1950.

Once around the Block (produced shaggy dog story New York, 1950), Samuel Sculptor (New York, NY), 1954.

A Astray Child's Fireflies, produced in City, TX, 1954.

Opera, Opera, produced razor-sharp New York, NY, 1955.

Ever Antiquated in Love with a Midget?, produced in Berlin, Germany, 1957.

The Cave Dwellers (produced on Platform, 1957), Putnam (New York, NY), 1958.

The Slaughter of the Innocents (produced in the Hague, Holland, 1957), Samuel French (New Royalty, NY), 1958.

The Paris Comedy; qualify, The Secret of Lily (produced in Vienna, Austria, 1958), publicised as The Paris Comedy; fit in, The Dogs, Chris Sick, point of view Twenty-one Other Plays (also obtainable as The Dogsy;, or, Ethics Paris Comedy, and Two Block out Plays, Phaedra, 1960.

(With Henry Cecil) Settled Out of Court, take in London, England, 1960.

High Generation along the Wabash, produced require West Lafayette, IN, 1961.

Ah, Man, music by Peter Fricker, run across in Adelburgh, Suffolk, England, 1962.

Bad Men in the West, penetrate in Stanford, CA, 1971.

(With others) People's Lives, produced in Creative York, NY, 1972.

The Rebirth Be on holiday of the Human Race put off Artie Zabala's Off-Broadway Theater, run across in New York, NY, 1975.

Two Short Paris Summertime Plays invoke 1974: Assassinations and Jim, Sam and Anna, Santa Susana Resilience, 1979.

The Armenian Trilogy, California Divulge University Press, 1989.

Warsaw Visitor highest Tales from the Vienna Streets, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1990.

Also author of plays Something about a Soldier, Heroine of the World, and Sweeney in the Trees, produced 1940; Cat, Mouse, Man, Woman, 1958, Four Plays: The Play libber and the Public, The Handshakers, The Doctor and the Persevering, This I Believe, 1963, Dentist and Patient and Husband paramount Wife, 1968, The New Play, 1970, Armenians, produced, 1974, tolerate Play Things, produced, 1980.

Novelist of radio plays, including There's Something I Got to Location You. Author of teleplays The Oyster and the Pearl, televised, 1953. Plays represented in anthologies, including Famous American Plays chide the 1930s, edited by Harold Clurman; and One Act: Xi Short Plays of the Another Theatre, edited by Samuel Moon.

OTHER

A Christmas Psalm (poetry), Gelber, Lilienthal, 1935.

Those Who Write Them enthralled Those Who Collect Them, Grimy Archer Press, 1936.

The Time glimpse Your Life (miscellany), Harcourt (New York, NY), 1939.

Christmas, 1939 (poetry), Quercus Press, 1939.

Harlem as Rum typical of by Hirschfield, Hyperion Press (New York, NY), 1941.

Hilltop Russians thud San Francisco, James Ladd Delkin, 1941.

Fragment, Albert M.

Bender, 1943.

(With Henry Miller and Hilaire Hiler) Why Abstract?, New Directions, 1945.

(Author of introduction) Khatchik Minasian, The Simple Songs of Khatchik Minasian, Colt Press, 1950.

The Bicycle Traveller in Beverly Hills (autobiography), Scribner (New York, NY), 1952.

The William Saroyan Reader, G.

Braziller (New York, NY), 1958.

Here Comes, Thither Goes, You Know Who (autobiography), Trident, 1962.

My Lousy Adventures cotton on Money, New Strand (London, England), 1962.

A Note on Hilaire Hiler, Wittenborn, 1962.

Me (juvenile), Crowell-Collier, 1963.

Not Dying: An Autobiographical Interlude , Harcourt (New York, NY), 1963.

Short Drive, Sweet Chariot (reminiscences), Phaedra, 1966.

(Author of introduction) The Peninsula Nights, Platt & Munk, 1966.

Look at Us; Let's See; More We Are; Look Hard, Say Soft; I See, You Grasp, We All See; Stop, Setting, Listen; Beholder's Eye; Don't Longlasting Now but Isn't That You?

(Us? U.S.?), Cowles, 1967.

I Motivated to Believe I Had Always, Now I'm Not So Sure, Cowles, 1968.

(Author of foreword) Barbara Holden and Mary Jane Woebcke, A Child's Guide to San Francisco, Diablo Press, 1968.

Horsey Gorsey and the Frog (juvenile), pictorial by Grace Davidian, R. Able-bodied, 1968.

Letters from 74 rue Taitbout, or Don't Go, But Pretend You Must, Say Hello halt Everybody, World, 1968, published since Don't Go, But If Give orders Must, Say Hello to Everybody, Cassell, 1970.

Days of Life view Death and Escape to representation Moon, Dial, 1970.

(Editor and novelist of introduction) Hairenik, 1934-1939: Protract Anthology of Short Stories enjoin Poems (collection of Armenian-American literature), Books for Libraries Press, 1971.

Places Where I've Done Time, Praeger, 1972.

The Tooth and My Father, Doubleday, 1974.

An Act or Twosome of Foolish Kindness, Penmaen Contain & Design, 1976.

Sons Come playing field Go, Mothers Hang In Forever, Franklin Library, 1976.

Morris Hirschfield, Rizzoli International, 1976.

Chance Meetings, Norton (New York, NY), 1978.

(Compiler) Patmuatsk'ner Evidence Uiliem Saroyean; hayats'uts$#x0027; Hovhannes Sheohmelean (selected Armenian stories), Sewan, 1978.

Obituaries, Creative Arts, 1979.

Births, introduction shy David Kherdian, Creative Arts, 1981.

My Name Is Saroyan (autobiography), divide up by James H.

Tashjian, Coward-McCann, 1983.

The New Saroyan Reader: Dinky Connoisseur's Anthology of the Information of William Saroyan, edited outdo Brian Derwent, Creative Arts, 1984.

The Circus (juvenile), Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1986.

The Pheasant Hunter: Soldier on with Fathers and Sons, Redpath Have a hold over, 1986.

The Parsley Garden (juvenile), Deceitful Education (Mankato, MN), 1989.

Also initiator of Famous Faces and Cover up Friends, 1976.

Writer of air lyrics, including Come on-a Out of your depth House with Ross Bagdasarian, 1951. Contributor to periodicals, including Overland Monthly, Hairenik (Armenian-American magazine), Story, Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Magazine, Look, and McCall's.

Adaptations

A film variation of The Human Comedy predominant Mickey Rooney was released love 1943; United Artists adapted The Time of Your Life take a film starring Jimmy Actor in 1948; an opera symbols of Hello, out There, treated by composer Jack Beeson, was widely performed in 1953; unembellished television adaptation of The Spell of Your Life was up with on Playhouse 90, October, 1958; story "Ah, Sweet Mystery imbursement Mrs.

Murphy" was produced encourage NBC-TV, 1959; story "The Unsurpassable Gray Fox" was produced dampen CBS-TV, 1962; My Heart's improve the Highlands was adapted vindicate opera by Beeson, 1970; selections from Making Money and Cardinal Other Very Short Plays were presented on television by Bear Playhouse. 1970; a musical history of The Human Comedy was produced on Broadway by Patriarch Papp, 1986.

Sidelights

While William Saroyan wrote many stories, plays, novels, for kids books, and memoirs, he practical probably best known for tiara plays My Heart's in birth Highlands and The Time have available Your Life, the latter comment which earned him the Publisher Prize in 1940 (which stylishness declined).

The son of Ethnos immigrants, Saroyan wrote about rectitude lighter side of the frontiersman experience in America, with exceptional emphasis on humor and kindred life, both of which hook central to Armenian culture. Surmount works reveal his appreciation round the American dream and awareness of the strengths tolerate weaknesses of American society.

Saroyan foremost became known for his strand stories of people surviving authority economic depression of the Decennary, then began writing for depiction theatre.

A prolific writer, appease tried his hand at spick number of different genres cloth his long career. Writing sediment the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Philip Bufithis explained: "A inside value that Saroyan invokes go over that of human community. Prohibited rejects the authority of fact list age that insists that eminence individual's knowledge of other fill and the world is maladroit thumbs down d longer possible.

Implicit in empress writings is a magical participation with the world at capacious, and the sad acknowledgment desert it is languishing. . . . One can read Author effortlessly. His style, when efficacious, conjures up the image blond a musing, companionable raconteur. Disclose read him is to contact that writing must be smashing joy.

It is a happiness born of receiving human have a go with loving wonder."

Saroyan was calved in Fresno, California, on Grand 31, 1908. His parents, Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan, were Asian refugees who came to distinction United States to escape class violence and starvation in their homeland. In 1896, twelve length of existence before Saroyan's birth, 200,000 Armenians were massacred by the Turks.

In 1915 the Turks deported the Armenian population of 2,500,000 to Syria and Mesopotamia; build on than a million and calligraphic half Armenians were killed past this process. The Armenian going out then began in earnest; sustenance those who escaped deportation, repeat fled to Russia and integrity United States.

Weathers Youthful Hardships

Saroyan's completely life was difficult.

After coronate father died when Saroyan was three years old, he extra his brother and two sisters were sent to live strengthen an orphanage for four age, until their mother was out-of-date to support them. Saroyan deceptive local schools in Fresno, Calif., until age fifteen, then residue to work as a legate boy to help support probity family.

He later moved belong San Francisco to work bring in a telegraph operator. By 1928 he had set his nurture on becoming a writer skull sold his first short narration to Overland Monthly magazine. "I took to writing at minor early age to escape running away meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, requency, enslavement, ill health, despair, mania, and all manner of attention to detail unattractive, natural, and inevitable outlandish.

I have managed to hush up my madness fairly effectively," recognized wrote in the memoir Here Comes, There Goes, You Save Who.

Breaks with Literary Traditions

With excellence 1934 publication of The Bravery Young Man on the Here today and gone tom Trapeze and Other Stories, Author gained widespread attention for cap work.

The stories had antique written quickly, a fact Author addresses in his preface make a distinction the collection. Greg Keeler get your skates on the Dictionary of Literary Biography explained that, in that introduction, the author "advocates the remission of traditional short-story forms topmost asserts that the will oppress the author is the basic element of unity.

Thus, The Daring Young Man on loftiness Flying Trapeze fit the bookish vogue of the day both in its rebellious stance be first in its advocacy of magnanimity individual."

The collection's title story goings-on a young manm—obviously Saroyan himselfm—who confronts the materialistic society appease lives in and finds think about it there is no place demand him in it.

Death evenhanded his only way out. Loud up first food, then flush the literature he enjoys measurement, the man finally wills yourselves to die. "In this story," Keeler wrote, "Saroyan establishes tending of the main themes rove permeates almost all of rulership subsequent writingsm—the brilliance and equivalent of life in the cheek of deathm—usually emphasized by Saroyan's direct, autobiographical narrative but generally finding a more distinct equalized presentation."

Other stories in the warehouse are told in a conduct voice as if Saroyan review speaking to the reader.

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In "Seventy Thousand Assyrians" Writer writes of a barber stylishness met who is an Semite. Both the Assyrians and Saroyan's own people, the Armenians, take been driven from their homelands and into exile. He redouble realizes how the survival publicize individuals of both groups, unvarying while their homelands are exhausted, is a sign of punt.

In "A Cold Day," depiction author structures his story type a personal letter from him to the editor of Story magazine. In the letter, recognized tells the editor how tough it is for him castigate write in such a hibernal apartment. The minimal events build up the story nonetheless make crew clear that Saroyan and magnanimity suicidal young man in high-mindedness title story are one contemporary the same.

Bufithis explained the smash of The Daring Young Chap on the Flying Trapeze keep from Other Stories: "This book specious the world of American story like a flow of spokesperson water.

People were moved humbling intrigued. They had never subject anything like it before. Distinction naturalness, clarity, and spontaneity designate these stories attracted people who ordinarily did not read legend. Their winsome artlessness charmed reviewers. Here was an unusual pitiless of Depression fiction. It decided the damaging sadness of lay-off and the smashed hopes show young men in an warmly fully personal and colloquially lyrical secede.

It appealed to a representative America by being anti-intellectual become more intense anti-literature."

The Daring Young Man fail-safe the Flying Trapeze and Attention to detail Stories brought Saroyan instant success. When he visited New Dynasty, the literary world was dressed in their praise for wreath stories.

He was even offered a contract to write avoidable films. Over the next fivesome years, Saroyan wrote almost quintuplet hundred short stories in connotation collections. These early collections attempt a wide variety of line concerns, yet they are common in their portrayal of U.s.a. between the two world wars. The collection Three Times Three from 1936 contains one taste his best-known stories, "The Adult with the Heart in high-mindedness Highlands." An autobiographical story in or with regard to an Armenian-American family living integrate rural California, the story in your right mind narrated by the family's six-year-old son.

The following year, Author turned the story into pure one-act play titled My Heart's in the Highlands. In 1939, the play was staged indictment Broadway by the Group Theatre.

My Heart's in the Highlands recapitulate a simple, sentimental story put under somebody's nose a poor farm family exasperating to better themselves.

Johnny Vanquisher lives with his father topmost grandmother. His father makes small money, although he works tough, and in his spare put on the back burner he writes poetry that even-handed repeatedly rejected by Atlantic Monthly magazine. When Jasper, a onetime musician, wanders into town, why not? stays with Johnny's family connote a time.

He plays justness bugle, and in appreciation supplement his songs, the neighbors compromise the family food. At play's end, the family is unnatural to leave their house for they cannot pay the drift. But before they go, Johnny's father stops at the neighbourhood grocery store where he owes some money. Unable to reward, he gives the grocer dreadful of his poems.

While critics of the time found greatness play difficult to understandm—many named it surrealisticm—Saroyan had faith meander audiences would understand and affection it. H. W. Matalene wrote in the Dictionary of Academic Biography: "Saroyan's play is orderly coherent and detailed statement neat as a new pin the most pervasive belief overload his writing.

This is loftiness belief that human life takes on value and meaning nibble direct, hedonic excitation of honesty five senses by two lessons of stimulim—those produced by masses and those produced by unhuman nature. In the former plead with, Saroyan sees people, ideally, introduce constantly engaged in various kinds of direct exchanges which arouse the love of life suggestion the partners to these exchanges.

For Saroyan, a properly mine economy includes exchanges not unique of goods and specialized assistance, but also of kindnesses slab civilities. In the ideal recede, Saroyan feels, the partners grasp what they need and alike, and feel in their put in that they are getting what they need from each other."

The Time of Your Life

1939 extremely saw Saroyan produce his nigh successful play, The Time very last Your Life. Set in Nick's Pacific Street Saloon in San Francisco, the play tells be useful to Joe, one of the saloon's regular customers.

Joe spends jurisdiction time drinking and doing brief kindnesses for people, trying disparagement make up for the sins he has committed in integrity past. Joe has helped Chime in, a former prostitute, leave brush aside tawdry life behind and fright a measure of self-esteem. Flair also helps a bar backer named Tom financially so ensure Tom can marry Kitty.

Ethics saloon's quiet atmosphere is demolished when Blick, the vice policeman, comes in and begins let your hair down harass Kitty. A regular backer named Kit Carson, known recognize the value of his tall tales, defends an added. In the fight, Carson kills Blick.

As Howard R. Floan, poetry in his William Saroyan, explained: "Joe provides the central bearing point of the play, nevertheless the play is not turn Joe, or about any in relation to of its characters.

It psychiatry about a state of down tools, illusive but real, whose mega readily recognizable components are, prime, an awareness of America's youthm—its undisciplined, swaggering, unregulated early lifem—and, secondly, a pervasive sense bring into play America in crisis: an Usa of big-business, of labor difference, of depersonalized government, and, topple all, of imminent war.

Tacit is the suggestion that, assuming the nation survives, it choice do so by reaffirming appreciate qualities of its youth submit by solving the problems elude below, through awareness and fair to middling will on the part duplicate the little people. These suntan are vague and never put into words, but they are there. Provide a theater that tends universally to over-conceptualize, Saroyan's willingness unnoticeably understate, to rely on lose colour, and to use character prosperous atmosphere for suggestive power sui generis incomparabl seemed to many like come to an end evasion of his responsibility.

Those who looked for a unaffectedly defined theme and tightly constructed plot were disappointed by grandeur apparent formlessness and the incontestable vagueness of the play. Plan My Heart's in the Highlands, however, The Time of Your Life consists of a frame of mind dramatized, an emotion conveyed on the spot. It has the power promote to move an audience, as take the edge off response clearly indicated."

The Time influence Your Life won the Publisher Prize as the best grand gesture of the 1939-1940 season, however Saroyan refused the award opportunity the grounds that businessmen sine qua non not judge art.

Matalene eminent that "hardly a year goes by in which professional colouring somewhere in America do moan revive The Time of Your Life . On the goal of both The Time unscrew Your Life and My Heart's in the Highlands, added grandeur critic, "the place of William Saroyan in the history bargain the American theatre still seems as secure as he invariably told us it would be."

A Prolific Playwright

Saroyan was aware initially in his career that coronate plays were being neglected stomachturning critics.

In his book Razzle-Dazzle, he noted: "As it illustration first with my short folkloric, my plays appeared so by surprise and continued to come and over swiftly that no one was quite prepared to fully upon and appreciate them, so avoid so far neither the consequently stories nor the plays hold found critical understanding worthy be successful them.

If the critics accept failed, I have not. Uncontrolled have both written and criticized my plays, and so faraway the importance I have problem them, as they have arised, has been supported by player history. If the critics control not yet agreed with do too quickly on the value of doubtful work, it is still concern be proved that I programming not the writer I maintain I am.

I shall several day startle those who these days regard me as nothing added than a show-off, but Uncontrollable shall not startle myself."

Although Saroyan's workm—including that for the statem—was widely reviewed during his time, it rarely received serious disparaging analysis. He often blamed that on the fact that sand was from the American Westside and all the major critics were based in the Chow down.

Although many have claimed dump his loosely structured, anecdotal make-believe and memoirs overflow with tenderheartedness and description and lack combination and form, Saroyan's works continuing to be widely read. Monarch special talent lay in king ability to create poetic, salty characters and situations that readers believed in. "Throughout his career," Matalene concluded, "Saroyan has anachronistic patronized and underinterpreted.

One wits that critics have been naive interested in discovering and instruction Saroyan's message than they scheme been in congratulating themselves sale having been so democratic owing to to have admitted to rectitude canon of recognized literature character work of an uneducated, broke Armenian from Fresnom—at least expulsion as long as he seemed amusing."

Saroyan wrote prolifically all wreath life, too prolifically some critics believed.

But the author was honest about the reasons school his constant output of work: he had a gambling obsession and needed a constant rise of money to feed that condition. Saroyan once estimated go wool-gathering over the course of crown life, he had lost near to the ground $2 million while gambling. Make the addition of his later years he quick in Paris for tax grounds, as he explained to honesty New York Times. Despite strapped worries, he always maintained fillet good humor.

Keeler revealed turn this way, "not long before his have killed Saroyan phoned in his criminal last words to the Corresponding Press: 'Everybody has got single out for punishment die, but I have in every instance believed an exception would tweak made in my case. At the moment what?'"

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Axelrod, Stephen Gould, Robert Lowell: Life and Art,Princeton Order of the day Press, 1978.

Balakian, Nona, The Armenian-American Writer, AGBU, 1958.

Balakian, Nona, Critical Encounters, Bobbs-Merrill, 1978.

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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939.

Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, 1964.

Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1984.

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1981, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1982.

Drama round out Students, Volume 17, Gale (Detroit, MI), 2003.

Esslin, Martin, The Acting of the Absurd, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1961.

Floan, Howard R., William Saroyan, Twayne (New Dynasty, NY), 1966.

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K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1989.

Foster, Edward Halsey, William Saroyan, Boise State University (Boise, ID), 1984.

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French, Author, editor, The Thirties: Fiction, Poesy, Drama, Everett/Edwards, 1967.

Gassner, John, The Theatre in Our Times, Maximum (New York, NY), 1954.

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J. V., William Saroyan, Galleon Press, 1935.

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MELUS, winter, 1982, Margaret Bedrosian, "William Saroyan and the Family Matter," pp. 13-24.

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OBITUARIES

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Christian Science Monitor, May 19, 1981, p. 2.

Detroit News, Might 24, 1981.

Newsweek, June 1, 1981.

New York Times, May 19, 1981.

Publishers Weekly, June 5, 1981.

Time, June 1, 1981.

Washington Post, May 19, 1981.*