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William Saroyan

William Saroyan
William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (d. 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, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy.

31 August 1908

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