William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (born 1908)

William Saroyan

Armenian writer (1908–1981)

William Saroyan was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment,…