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 William Saroyan
(Writer)
[August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981]

Profile created December 7, 2009
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  • Boys and Girls Together (1995)
    Written with Saroyan's trademark clarity and compassion, Boys and Girls Together is a richly comedic portrayal of a couple caught in the toils of marriage with children. A masterful novel of human folly, it focuses on the eagerness of men and women to be something other than themselves.

    Saroyan is a startlingly honest writer with an uncluttered style and a uniquely distanced vision of American life. His work gave rise to a new word, "Saroyanesque," and influenced Jack Kerouac and Sean Penn, among others.

  • Births (1983)
    Responding to his own Obituaries, Saroyan uses the mystery of birth as the occasion for exploring his wideranging thoughts on any and all subjects.  This was Saroyan's last book.

  • Obituaries (1979)

  • Chance Meetings (1978)

  • Places Where I've Done Time (1972)
    Possibly printed in 1957.

  • Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon (1970)

  • One Day in the Afternoon of the World (1964)

  • Here Comes, There Goes, You Know Who (1962, 1995)
    Here is Saroyan at the top of his form--the unmistakable voice in all its resonant variety--setting out to tell the story of his life.

    In superbly rendered scenes from his life as an orphan, schoolboy, newspaper-boy, messenger, fledgling writer, family misfit, world famous writer, man-about-town, husband, and father, this book gives us the characteristic fluency of Saroyan at his best, and it introduces a new emotional depth that was to become a hallmark of the writer's later work.

  • Papa You're Crazy (1957)

  • Mama, I Love You (1956)

  • Love (1955)

  • The Laughing Matter (1953)

  • Tracy's Tiger (1952, 1967)
    The young man is Tracy. The girl's anem is Laura. And the tiger is called (naturally) Tracy's Tiger. When Tracy came to New York to work in Otto Seyfang's wholesale coffee business, he didn't intend to spend the rest of his life moving sacks. And when Laura met Tracy at the luncheonette, she didn't expect to fall in love. And when Dr. Pingitzer the analyst talked to Tracy about this...this, tiger, nobody thought it was real. But pretty soon Tracy's Tiger was running up Madison Avenue with an armored car and cops in pursuit, the newspapers were trying to get an interview with Tracy, Tracy was looking for Laura -- and after that, New York was never quite the same!

  • Rock Wagram (1951)

  • The Adventures of Wesley Jackson (1946)

  • The Human Comedy (1943, 1989)
    The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is the Macauley's -- a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants.. In particular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love, and money brings him face-to-face with human emotion at its most naked and raw.

    Gentle, poignant and richly autobiographical, this delightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in a world that even in the midst of war, appears sweeter, safer and more livable than out own.

  • My Name Is Aram (1940, 2009)
    First published to international acclaim in 1940, this is a collection of semiautobiographical stories about a boy of Armenian descent called Aram Garoghlanian and is set in Fresno, California. The book is like a novel in that the stories all involve the same character and are placed in a roughly chronological order; the first story takes place when Aram is nine years old, the last when he is a young man leaving his hometown for the first time. From bickering grandparents presiding over a family meeting to the time the circus came to town, each episode vibrates with warmth and humor, building a rich portrait of Aram’s large family and of the immigrant experience in general. This utter delight of a book is as easy to read today as it was when it was published almost 70 years ago.

  • Love Here Is My Hat: And Other Short Romances (1938)

  • The Trouble With Tigers (1938)

  • Little Children (1937)

  • Inhale and Exhale (1936)

  • Three Times Three (1936)

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  • Come On-a My House (1951), Words and Music by Ross Bagdasarian (Saroyan's cousin) and William Saroyan
    Rosemary Clooney hit .

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