Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human Comedy, was the most well-known American writer of the 1930s and 1940s. Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford heard Saroyan's story first-hand from Carol Matthau, the wife he rejected; the son and daughter he alternately smothered and pushed away; and colleagues like Artie Shaw, Celeste Holm, and Lillian Gish. Their revelations bring new depth to Saroyan's riveting story.
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"A well-rounded, objective account of the life and character of this much-admired, much-maligned man. . . . Gifford and Lee let their research do the talking, largely eschewing judgment in order to build a documentary mosaic of testimony. . . . The best available picture of this major American writer." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"Saroyan thoroughly chronicles this writer's triumph and agonies. Lee and Gifford have assessed their subject's personality and his contributions to American letters, and the result is a beautifully balanced account." -- Boston Herald
"Saroyan thoroughly chronicles this writer's triumph and agonies. Lee and Gifford have assessed their subject's personality and his contributions to American letters, and the result is a beautifully balanced account." -- Boston Herald
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Lawrence Lee, a Peabody Award-winning journalist, died in 1990. Barry Gifford's books include Wild at Heart (1990), The Sinaloa Story (1998), The Phantom Father: A Memoir (1997) and Bordertown (with David Perry, 1998). Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford also coauthored Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac (1978).
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A few minutes after midnight on the last morning of 1940, William Saroyan went to the basement workroom of the new house his words had bought for him and began typing a play he had decided to entitle, in the spirit of the season, A Cup of Kindness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, San Francisco, Artie Shaw, Bill Saroyan, The Human Comedy, William Saroyan, Eddie Dowling, The Beautiful People, Uncle Aram, Julie Haydon, George Jean Nathan, The Daring Young Man, Los Angeles, Theatre Guild, Postal Telegraph, Louis Mayer, Love's Old Sweet Song, Random House, Stanley Rose, Irwin Shaw, Critics Circle, Jim Dandy, Joan Castle, Pulitzer Prize, The Adventures of Wesley Jackson New!
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A few minutes after midnight on the last morning of 1940, William Saroyan went to the basement workroom of the new house his words had bought for him and began typing a play he had decided to entitle, in the spirit of the season, A Cup of Kindness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, San Francisco, Artie Shaw, Bill Saroyan, The Human Comedy, William Saroyan, Eddie Dowling, The Beautiful People, Uncle Aram, Julie Haydon, George Jean Nathan, The Daring Young Man, Los Angeles, Theatre Guild, Postal Telegraph, Louis Mayer, Love's Old Sweet Song, Random House, Stanley Rose, Irwin Shaw, Critics Circle, Jim Dandy, Joan Castle, Pulitzer Prize, The Adventures of Wesley Jackson New!
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- Time of Your Life (RSC playtext) by William Saroyan on 43 pages
- The Human Comedy by William Saroyan on 27 pages
- The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: And Other Stories (New Directions Classics) by William Saroyan on 14 pages
- My Name is Aram by William Saroyan on 14 pages
- The adventures of Wesley Jackson by William Saroyan on 10 pages
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- Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir by Barry Gifford in Front Matter
- Do the Blind Dream?: New Novellas and Stories by Barry Gifford in Back Matter
- Night People (Gifford, Barry) by Barry Gifford in Front Matter
- Blood And Champagne: The Life And Times Of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw in Back Matter
- Back in America by Barry Gifford in Front Matter
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