William Saroyan () a fost un scriitor american de povestiri, textier, romancier și dramaturg.
Lucrări Piese de teatru The Time of Your Life (1939) – a câștigat Premiul Pulitzer My Heart's in the Highlands (Inima mea este pe înălțimi, 1939) Elmer and Lily (1939) Three plays - Trei piese (1940): My heart’s in the Highlands The time of your life Love’s old sweet song The Agony of Little Nations (1940) Subway Circus (1940) Hello Out There (1941) Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning (1941) The Beautiful People (1941) Bad Men in the West (1942) Talking to You (1942) Coming Through the Rye (1942) Don't Go Away Mad (1947) Jim Dandy (1947) The Slaughter of the Innocents (1952) The Oyster and the Pearl (Stridia și perla, 1953) The Stolen Secret (1954) A Midsummer Daydream (Television Play) (1955) The Cave Dwellers (1958) Sam, The Highest Jumper Of Them All, or the London Comedy (1960) Hanging around the Wabash (1961) The Dogs, or the Paris Comedy (1969) Armenian (1971) Assassinations (1974) Tales from the Vienna Streets (1980) An Armenian Trilogy (1986) The Parsley Garden (1992)
Cărți The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) Inhale and Exhale (1936) Three Times Three (1936) Little Children (1937) The Trouble With Tigers (1938) Peace, It's Wonderful (1939) Love Here Is My Hat (1938) My Name Is Aram (1940) Razzle-Dazzle (1942) The Human Comedy (1943) Get Away Old Man (1944) Dear Baby (1944) The Adventures of Wesley Jackson (1946) The Twin Adventures (1950) Rock Wagram (1951) Tracy's Tiger (1952) The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills (1952) The Laughing Matter (1953) Love (1955) The Whole Voyald and Other Stories (1956) Mama I Love You (1956) Papa You're Crazy (1957) Here Comes, There Goes, You Know Who (1962) Me: A Modern Masters Book for Children (1963), ilustrație de Murray Tinkelman Not Dying (1963) One Day in the Afternoon of the World (1964) Short Drive, Sweet Chariot (1966) I Used to Believe I Had Forever, Now I'm Not So Sure (1968) The Man with the Heart in the Highlands and other stories (1968) Letter from 74 rue Taitbout (1971) Places Where I've Done Time (1972) Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon (1973) Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang In Forever (1976) Chance Meetings (1978) Obituaries (1979) Births (1983) My name is Saroyan (1983) Madness in the Family (1988)
Povestiri "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8" "An Ornery Kind of Kid" "The Filipino and the Drunkard" "Gaston" (un necunoscut) "The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter" "Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World" (1942) "The Mourner" "The Parsley Garden" "Resurrection of a Life" (1935) The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (1938) "Seventy Thousand Assyrians" (1934) "The Shepherd's Daughter" "Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart" "Third day after Christmas" (1926) "Five Ripe Pears" (1935) "Pomegranate Trees" (an necunoscut) "Seventeen"
Cântece Come On-a My House, un hit pentru Rosemary Clooney, bazat pe un cântec popular armean, scris împreună cu vărul său, Ross Bagdasarian, mai târziu impresarul trupei Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Eat, Eat, Eat (cu versuri și muzică) cântată de Danny Kaye cu Orchestra Vic Schoen.Billboard 3 Nov 1951. p.49. Billboard.Decca matrix L 6451. Eat, eat, eat! / Danny Kaye. Discography of American Historical Recordings.
Vezi și Listă de dramaturgi americani Listă de piese de teatru americane Listă de scriitori americani Listă de scriitori armeni
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Legături externe
The William Saroyan Society. William Saroyan article on Armeniapedia.org. William Saroyan at Parajanov.com I Saw The Mighty Armenia The William Saroyan Literary Foundation Intl. Web site of the documentary film William Saroyan : The Man, The Writer'', by Paul and Susie Kalinian. Fred Finch Youth Center
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