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	William Saroyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saroyan grew up in Fresno, the center of Armenian-Americans in California, where many of his works are set (although he sometimes gave the city a fictional name).
		Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, the son of an Armenian immigrant.
		William Saroyan's stories celebrated optimism in the midst of the trials and tribulations of the Depression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Saroyan (1737 words)

	WILLIAM SAROYAN
		William Saroyan was an internationally renowned Armenian-American writer, playwright and humanitarian.
		William Stonehill Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, on August 31, 1908; the 4th child of Armenian immigrants Armenak Saroyan preacher and poet, and Takoohi Saroyan, of Bitlis.
		On May 22, 1991, William Saroyan was the first and only individual to be jointly honored by the USA--as part of its Literary Arts Series and the USSR Postal Services on their Commemorative Postal Stamps.
	hometown.aol.com /kalinian/pamphlet/william.html (687 words)

	William Saroyan Foundation - Stanford Library
		Thanks to the decision of the William Saroyan Foundation to give permanently and irrevocably the William Saroyan archive and literary property rights it owned to Stanford, a series of activities have been set in motion to assist and promote the rebirth of interest in Saroyan and his works.
		This publication of several letters from Saroyan to Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Robert E. Sherwood, Sean O'Faolain and H. Mencken is intended to whet the interest of scholars and students of twentieth-century American literature by hinting at the wealth of source materials on a wide swath of the authors and dramatists of the American canon.
		William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California in 1908, the youngest child of recent Armenian immigrants.
	www.williamsaroyanfoundation.org /wsfndtn_stlib.htm (1102 words)

	William Saroyan
		William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, of an Armenian immigrant father who came to New Jersey in 1905 with his wife, Takoohi.
		Saroyan's big break as a writer came with the release of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934).
		Saroyan's financial situation--which was often grim because of the writer's carelessness with money and his penchant for drinking and gambling--grew worse following the war as public interest in his work declined.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-083103-saroyan.html (1306 words)

	William Saroyan - Armeniapedia.org
		William Saroyan's stories celebrated optimism in the middle of trials and difficulties of the Depression.
		Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, the son of a Armenian immigrants.
		Saroyan praised freedom; brotherly love and universal benevolence were for him basic values, but with his idealism Saroyan was considered out of date.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=William_Saroyan (2477 words)

	The World of William Saroyan
		Saroyan's reading had been sufficiently diversified from his early days of immersion in the classics to have led him to avant-garde magazines in the heyday of those publications in the 1920s.
		Saroyan's own experimental fervor would never lead him too far into Steinland, no matter how much drawn he might be to the precise rendering of the modern consciousness; a certain metaphysical awareness would guard him from captivity by the here and now.
		Saroyan's challenge as a young man of conscience with more than average pride in a freshly assimilated literary heritage would be, instead, to confront a grim social reality while embracing larger transcendent truths.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/balakian-saroyan.html (6880 words)

	Saroyan,The William Saroyan Society,William Saroyan
		1908 August 31: William Saroyan is born in Fresno, California, to Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan.
		William, his brother, Henry; and his sisters, Zabel and Cosette, are place in the Fred Finch Home, a Methodist orphanage in Oakland.
		William’s triumphant debut collection, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, appears in October, published by Random House, and is an immediate critical and commercial success.
	www.williamsaroyansociety.org /chro.html (1575 words)

	A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan by John Leggett
		In short stories, plays, novels, essays and memoirs, William Saroyan exuberantly proclaimed a philosophy of the decency of ordinary people, life as something to celebrate and hope as mankind's salvation.
		Saroyan was born in 1908 in Fresno, Calif., into an Armenian-American family so poor that, after the death of his father, his mother put her four children into an orphanage for a time.
		Saroyan's innocent world and his exceptional promise became a casualty of the war, Budd Schulberg wrote in a 1960 Esquire article.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20021124saroyan1124fnp5.asp (774 words)

	SULAIR: AmLitStudies: William Saroyan Collection
		Novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist, William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California in 1908.
		A high-school dropout, Saroyan was largely self-educated and decided at an early age to pursue a career as a writer, drawing on his experience as an Armenian-American growing up in California.
		Also present is Saroyan's personal library, which consists of thousands of volumes, including his own works in their many editions and translations as well as his copies of other writers' books.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/saroyan.html (1692 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Among Saroyans best-known works is the play THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (1939), which won a Pulitzer Prize, which Saroyan refused on the grounds that commerce should not be the judge of the arts.
		Saroyan also published essays and memoirs; depicting the people he had met during his travels in the Soviet Union and Europe, including the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
		Saroyan's financial situation did not improve after WW II when interest in his novels declined and he was criticized for sentimentalism.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/saroyan_william.html (1017 words)

	Online NewsHour: RIchard Rodriguez on the writing of William Saroyan -- May 26, 1997
		Saroyan was the son of Armenian parents who settled in Fresno, in California’s Central Valley.
		Saroyan’s prose is as plain as it is strong.
		Saroyan wrote "The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/essays/rodriguez_5-26.html (679 words)

	William Saroyan Foundation
		Saroyan’s death, his spinster sister, Cosette, died in the home jointly owned by her and Saroyan’s Foundation.
		During the sixteenth anniversary year of the death of William Saroyan, 1997, all of his literary papers were placed in Special Collections at Stanford University Libraries, now designated the William Saroyan Archive.
		The year shall be remembered as the new and positive chapter in the fulfillment of many of the wishes and aspirations of one of the giants of American literature of that century.
	www.williamsaroyanfoundation.org (659 words)

	Fiction: William Saroyan
		William Saroyan (1908-1981) was born in Fresno, California, three years after his father, a survivor of the Turkish massacre of the Armenians, had emigrated to America from the Armenian-Kurdish town of Bitlis in eastern Turkey.
		When Saroyan's father died in 1911, William, his brother, and his two sisters were placed in an orphanage in Oakland.
		Saroyan went to public schools but dropped out of high school and moved to San Francisco to work various jobs while he tried to write fiction.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/saroyan.htm (417 words)

	William Saroyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Flamboyant writer and humanitarian William Saroyan became a literary sensation at the age of 26 when his story, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, was published by Story magazine in 1932.
		Saroyan, who called himself "The World's Greatest Writer," won the Pulitzer Prize for the play but declined it and the $1,000 purse, insisting that commerce should not drive the arts.
		Saroyan's novel The Human Comedy draws from his own experiences as a messenger in his native Fresno.
	www.mistersf.com /literary/litsaroyan.htm (204 words)

	PAL: William Saroyan (1908-1981)
		William Saroyan: a study of the short fiction.
		"William Saroyan and San Francico: Emergence of a Genius (Self Proclaimed)." San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature.
		Justus, James H. "William Saroyan and the Theatre of Transformation." The Thirties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/saroyan.html (335 words)

	William E. Justice . Essential Saroyan: A Selection of William Saroyan's Best Writings . CaliforniaAuthors.com
		William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, to Armenian immigrants in 1908; the century we recently crawled out of had only just begun.
		Saroyan's Armenian heritage, however, manifests itself in his writing in a number of ways, perhaps most strikingly in the novel My Name is Aram, hailed as "the Armenian Huck Finn." Saroyan found, and was found by, Armenians wherever he went and quickly became a hero and a favorite son.
		Saroyan invented his very own style, without shaping or molding by universities, and brought an unerring sense of life to the written word that beguiles and captivates.
	www.californiaauthors.com /excerpt-justice.shtml (2584 words)

	William Saroyan Signature - Fadedgiant Online Author Autograph Guide - Books, Links, Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Here is the vintage Saroyan of the early 1930's and early 1940's, the period during which the short stroy writer, playwright, and novelist achieved a critical and popular success comparable to F. Scott Fitzgerald's during the 1920's.
		All of the tales were written during the great depression and reflect, through pathos and humor, the mood of the nation in one of its greatest times of want.
		About the Author - William Saroyan (1908-1981), famous for a long and voluminous career, burst upon the literary scene in 1934 with his celebrated short-story collection of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze.
	www.fadedgiant.net /html/saroyan__william.htm (450 words)

	William Stonehill Saroyan - People of California
		When Saroyan was three years old, his father died, and his mother was unable to provide for the four Saroyan children.
		William and his siblings were placed in an orphanage in Oakland, California.
		William Saroyan died on May 18, 1981, about a mile from the Fresno house in which he was born.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ca_wss.htm (368 words)

	William Saroyan
		William Saroyan wrote more than 1,500 short stories, 12 plays, and 10 novels.
		Saroyan visited Armenia four times, in 1935, 1960, 1976 and 1978, and even saw his play “My Heart’s in the Highlands” in Yerevan theatre after G. Sundukyan staged by Vardan Adjemyan.
		When Saroyan died in 1981 he was buried in Fresno –; his native town; but according to his will, a part of his heart was buried in far-away Armenia, at the feet of Ararat, not far from lake Van and town of Bitlis – the homeland of his parents.
	armenianhouse.org /saroyan/saroyan-en.html (393 words)

	Favorite Books & Authors - More Saroyan
		In my mind, William Saroyan’s honesty sets him apart from a great many writers who, for one reason or another, allow themselves to believe either the flattering nonsense that is said about them, or that they conjure up on their own to feed their ever-expanding egos.
		Saroyan was a serious writer, but at the end of the day he knew he was still a human being who would never quite be able to figure things out.
		By the time William Saroyan had finished his last entry for December 1968, he was sixty years old.
	www.williammichaelian.com /favoritebooks/saroyan.html (2107 words)

	Fresno County Public Library - California History and Genealogy Room - Saroyan Collection
		Also present are original Saroyan letters and manuscripts; Saroyan appearances in anthologies and magazines; articles and books about Saroyan; various types of ephemera related to Saroyan (clippings, play programs, promotional items, etc.); and sound/video items (records, cassettes, sheet music, videorecordings, etc.).
		William Saroyan: the Man and the Writer : Fresno photographer Paul Kalinian's Saroyan Web site has fascinating details about his Saroyan documentary film, his reminiscences of "shooting Saroyan," and related periodical articles.
		Saroyan Chronology : the major landmarks in Saroyan's lifetime.
	www.fresnolibrary.org /calif/saroyan.html (275 words)

	University of Delaware: Paul Bowles Letters to William Saroyan
		Novelist, playwright, and composer William Saroyan was born on August 31, 1908 in Fresno, California.
		William Saroyan died on May 18, 1981, in Fresno, California.
		Paul Bowles Letters to William Saroyan is a small collection of eleven letters from Bowles to Saroyan and one carbon letter from Saroyan to Bowles.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/bwlstows.htm (488 words)

	William Saroyan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, as the son of an Armenian immigrant.
		Saroyan praised freedom; brotherly love and universal benevolence were for him basic values, but with his idealism Saroyan was considered more or less out of date.
		William Saroyan: A Study in the Shorter Fiction
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi.cob-web.org:8888 /saroyan.htm (1734 words)

	Stanford University and William Saroyan Foundation Announce Writing Prize
		Stanford University Libraries, in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, announced the launch of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing ("Saroyan Writing Prize") for newly published works of fiction including novels, short stories, dramas or memoirs.
		The Saroyan Writing Prize, which is planned as a biennial event, is meant to encourage new or emerging writers rather than recognize established literary figures.
		Saroyan, an American writer and playwright, was a Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner best known for his humorous short stories about the experiences of immigrant families and children in California.
	www.writenews.com /2002/042302_saroyan_prize.htm (570 words)

	Amazon.com: The William Saroyan Reader: Books: William Saroyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		William Saroyan Theatre Tickets — SportsTickets.com offers a huge selection of tickets to events at William Saroyan Theatre.
		William Saroyan is a wonderful writer for would-be writers to take a deeper look at.
		Saroyan's short stories, autobiographical writings, and novels are simple realism, stretched to heart rending emotional height.
	www.amazon.com /William-Saroyan-Reader/dp/0807600598 (809 words)

	William Saroyan Festival Agenda - Tower District News - TowerDistrictNews.com
		Each work is invested with Saroyan’s uninhibited creativity that is free from the restraints of traditional art training but exhibits Saroyan’s awareness of the current trends in the art of his time.
		Garoian’s development as an artist was influenced by William Saroyan and the ways in which Saroyan assigned mythic proportions to everyday occurrences.
		The fact that Saroyan’s stories originated in Fresno and that his ethnic origin was Armenian, naturally influenced Garoian’s interest and curiosity in the use of personal narrative.
	www.towerdistrictnews.com /festival_agenda.html (2620 words)

	William Saroyan Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Growing up in an Armenian immigrant community in the San Joaquin Valley of California with both of his grandmothers storytellers was a propitious circumstance for William Saroyan's career as a writer.
		This was the circumstance into which he was born in Fresno in 1908.
		Saroyan's father came to New York in 1905 from the mountainous Armenian-Kurdish town of Bitlis in eastern Turkey.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-saroyan-dlb2 (133 words)

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