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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060151412
• ISBN13: 9780060151416
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.