In the spring of 1939, when the work of William Saroyan first reached the New York stage in the form of a one-act play entitled My Heart's in the Highlands, Sidney B. Whipple of the New York World-Telegram accused Saroyan and his producers of...

Growing up in an Armenian immigrant community in the San Joaquin Valley of California with both of his grandmothers as storytellers was a propitious circumstance for William Saroyan's career as a writer. Witnessing the behavior of an individualistic,...

William Saroyan 's life, so crucial to an understanding of his controversially autobiographical short fiction, was fraught with instability and change. When Saroyan was three his father, Armenak Saroyan, died, and William and his brother and two...

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...

The skill of William Saroyan (1908-1981), American short-story writer, dramatist, and novelist, in evoking mood and atmosphere was noteworthy, and his imaginary world, peopled with common men, was warm and compelling. William Saroyan was born in...