
William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) 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 adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy. An Armenian American, 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, My Heart's in the Highlands, and The Human Comedy.

My Name Is Aram
1940
ISBN 9780955915635
The Human Comedy
1943
ISBN 9780440339335
Sunlight & Shadows
1974
ISBN 9780176329198
The Time of Your Life
1939
ISBN 9781408141168
My Heart's in the Highlands
1941

Tracy's Tiger
1951
ISBN 9788492649846
The William Saroyan reader
1958
ISBN 9781569800195
Here comes, there goes, you know who
1961
ISBN 9781569800300
Not Dying
1963
ISBN 9781569800812
Boys and girls together
1963
ISBN 9781448214808
Short drive, sweet chariot
1966
ISBN 9782283019306
I used to believe I had forever now I'm not sure
1968
ISBN 9780304933969
Letters from 74 rue Taitbout
1969
ISBN 9780304935024
Obituaries
1979
ISBN 9780916870171
My name is Saroyan
1983
ISBN 9780156623339
An Armenian trilogy
1986
ISBN 9780912201078
Warsaw visitor
1990
ISBN 9780912201191
Contemporary Drama: Eleven Plays: American - English - European
1956
ISBN 9780024246202
50 Great American Short Stories
1963

Places where I've done time.
1972

خانهای برای فرزندانم
1989

The daring young man on the flying trapeze, and other stories
1934
ISBN 9780811213653
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
1934
ISBN 9788496136816
Inhale & exhale
1936
ISBN 9780836941876