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William Saroyan
Armenian writer (–)
William Saroyan[2] (; August 31, – May 18, ) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in , and in won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy.
Saroyan wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant life in California.
Many of his stories and plays are set in his native Fresno.[3] Some of his best-known works are The Time of Your Life, My Name Is Aram and My Heart's in the Highlands. His two collections of short stories from the s, Inhale Exhale () and The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze () are regarded as among his major achievements and essential documents of the cultural history of the period on the American West Coast.
He has been described in a Dickinson College news release as "one of the most promine