Male : Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Fresno, California

Date of Birth : 1908 Date of Death : 1981 Age : 73

Pseudonyms : Sirak Goryan

1934-1940
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze & Other Stories (1934 Random House)
(1935)
A Christmas Psalm (1935 Gelber, Grabhorn Press, Lilienthal SF) - Signed 200
Inhale and Exhale (1936 RH) (1936)
Three Times Three (1936 LA)
Little Children (1937 NY) (1937)
The Gay and Melancholy Flux (1937)
Love, Here is My Hat & Other Short Romances (1938) (1938)
A Native American (1938 George Fields, SF)
The Time of Your Life & Two Other Plays (1939 Harcourt Brace)
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939 Harcourt Brace)
The Trouble with Tigers (1939 London)
Peace It's Wonderful (1940) (1940 Faber) - ss
My Name is Aram (1940 Harcourt Brace) - Don Freeman
A Special Announcement (1940 House of Books, NY)

1941-1945
Saroyan's Fables (1941 Harcourt Brace) - 1000 signed
The Insurance Salesman & other Stories (1941)
The Beautiful People & Two Other Plays (1941 Harcourt Brace) (1943 Faber)
Hilltop Russians in San Francisco (1941 Grabhorn Press for James Delkin, SF)
- photos Pauline Vinson
The Time of Your Life & Two Other Plays (1942)
["The Time of Your Life" filmed in 1948]
Razzle Dazzle (1942 Harcourt Brace) (1945)
The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills (1943) (1953 Faber)
The Human Comedy (1943 NY) (1943 Faber) - Don Freeman. 1st Novel
[Filmed in 1943]
Get Away Old Man : A Play in Two Acts (1943 Harcourt Brace) (1946)
Dear Baby (1944 Harcourt Brace) (1945 Faber)

1946-1950
The Adventures of Wesley Jackson (1946) (1947 Faber)
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (Play) (1947)
The Saroyan Special : Selected Short Stories (1948 NY) - Don Freeman
Don't Go Away Mad & Two Other Plays (1949)
Hello Out There (1949)
The Fiscal Hoboes (1949 Valenti Angelo, NY) - 250 signed by Author & illustrator-publisher
The Assyrian & Other Stories (1950 Faber)

1951-1960
Rock Wagram (1951) (1952 Faber)
Tracy's Tiger (1952) - H Koerner
The Laughing Matter (1953 Doubleday) (1954)
Mama I Love You (1956) (1957)
The Whole Voyald & other Stories (1957)
Papa You're Crazy (1958)
The Cave Dwellers : A Play (1958 US) (1958)
The William Saroyan Reader (1958 NY)

1961-1965
Sam the Highest Jumper of Them All, or The London Comedy (1961)
Here Comes / There Goes You Know Who (1961 US)
Boys and Girls Together (1963) (1963 Peter Davies)
Not Dying (1963 Harcourt Brace & World)
My Kind of Crazy, Wonderful People (1964)
One Day in the Afternoon of the World (1964)

1966-1970
Not Dying : An Autobiographical Interlude (1966 London)
One Day in the Afternoon of the World (1966)
Short Drive, Sweet Chariot (1966 Phaedra, NY)
Look at Us, Let's See Where We Are ... (1967 Cowles, NY)
Don't Go But if you Must Say Hello to Everybody (1969)
I Used to Believe I Had Forever, Now I'm Not so Sure (1968 Cowles) (1969)
Three New Dramatic Works (1969 US)
Days of Life and Death & Escape to the Moon (1970 M Joseph) (1971)

After 1971
Places Where I've Done Time (1972 NY)
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976 Franklin Library) (1976 McGraw-Hill)
Chance Meetings (1978)
Obituaries (1979 Berkeley)
Births (1983)
The New Saroyan Reader (1984)
Madness in the Family (1988)

READING
Lawrence Lee & Barry Gifford : Saroyan - A Biography (1984 Harper)