William Saroyan
Personal Info
Known For Writer
Gender Male
Birthday 1908-08-31
Deathday 1981-05-18 (72 years old)
Place of Birth Fresno, California, USA
William Saroyan
Biography
William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy. Saroyan is regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Saroyan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as Novel
as Novel
as Theatre Play
as Short Story
as Screenplay
as Book
as Writer
as Writer
as Theatre Play
as Story
Actor
as William Saroyan (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Self
Sound
as Songs