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Feb-1943, div. Sep-1949)<br><b>Wife:</b> Carol Marcus (remarried m. 25-Mar-1951, div. 1952)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Lucy Saroyan (actress, b. 17-Jan-1946, d. 11-Apr-2003 cirrhosis and hepatitis)<br><b>Son:</b> Aram (b. 25-Sep-1943)<br><p> Professor: <a href="/edu/513/000068309/">Purdue University</a><br><p> <a href="/org/039/000057865/">America First Committee</a> <br> <a href="/honors/529/000079292/">Pulitzer Prize for Drama</a> 1940 for <i>The Time of Your Life</i>, refused<br> <a href="/event/457/000179917/">Left at Orphanage</a> Fred Finch Orphanage, Oakland, CA (five years)<br> <a href="/event/700/000172184/">Psychiatric Observation</a> 1943<br> <a href="/event/351/000083102/">Appendectomy</a> <br> <a href="/lists/940/000043811/">Armenian Ancestry</a> <br> Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/454/000159974/">Appendicitis</a><br> <p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze</i> (<tt>1934</tt>, short story anthology)<br><i>Inhale and Exhale</i> (<tt>1936</tt>, short story collection)<br><i>My Name is Aram</i> (<tt>1940</tt>, short story collection)<br><i>The Human Comedy</i> (<tt>1943</tt>, novel, became a film in that year)<br><i>Rock Wagram</i> (<tt>1951</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Laughing Matter</i> (<tt>1953</tt>, novel)<br><i>Here Comes, There Goes You Know Who</i> (<tt>1961</tt>, memoir)<br><i>Not Dying</i> (<tt>1963</tt>, memoir)<br><i>One Day in the Afternoon of the World</i> (<tt>1964</tt>)<br><i>Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon</i> (<tt>1971</tt>, memoir)<br><i>Places Where I've Done Time</i> (<tt>1975</tt>, memoir)<br><p> <b>Wrote plays:</b><br> <i>My Heart's in the Highlands</i> (<tt>1939</tt>)<br><i>The Time of Your Life</i> (<tt>1939</tt>, became film in 1948)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=46161"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=46161">William Saroyan</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=46161" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>