William Saroyan
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William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer best known for his novels, plays, and short stories during the 20th century. He remains significant in American literature for bringing Armenian-American experiences and perspectives to a wide audience through his creative work.
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William Saroyan (pronounced /səˈrɔɪən/; 31 August 1908 - 18 May 1981) was an American-Armenian dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/William+Saroyan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,609x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,938x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,014x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010
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William Saroyan (/səˈrɔɪən/; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. 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.
Saroyan wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant life in California. Many of his stories and plays are set in his native Fresno. Some of his best-known works are The Time of Your Life, My Name Is Aram and My Heart's in the Highlands. His two collections of short stories from the 1930s, Inhale Exhale (1936) and The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), are regarded as among his major achievements and essential documents of the cultural history of the period on the West Coast of the United States.
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