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Saroyan: A Biography

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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. Author Bio: Lawrence Lee, a Peabody Award-winning journalist, died in 1990. Barry Gifford's books include Wild at Heart , The Sinaloa Story , The Phantom Father: A Memoir and Bordertown . Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford also coauthored Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac .

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release: January 01, 1984

ISBN: 0060151412

ISBN 13: 9780060151416

Saroyan: A Biography

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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. Author Bio: Lawrence Lee, a Peabody Award-winning journalist, died in 1990. Barry Gifford's books include Wild at Heart , The Sinaloa Story , The Phantom Father: A Memoir and Bordertown . Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford also coauthored Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac .

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release: January 01, 1984

ISBN: 0060151412

ISBN 13: 9780060151416

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