Saroyan: A Biography

By Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford

Book Overview

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. Peabody Award-winning journalist Lawrence Lee and award-winning novelist 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156025761X
• ISBN13: 9781560257615
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.5"