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Saroyan, William, 1908-1981

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1908-08-31 - 1981-05-18

Biography

William Saroyan (1908-1981), Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Lucien Aigner photographs and papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1837
Abstract:

The collection contains contact sheets, negatives, transparencies, slides, photographic prints, scrapbooks, writings, professional and personal papers, correspondence, printed material, cameras and other recording equipment, and audiovisual and computer media created and collected by Hungarian photojournalist Lucien Aigner.

Dates: 1886–2011

Argus Book Shop correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 427
Abstract: The Argus Book Shop Correspondence consists of the shop's "author correspondence" files holding letters between Ben Abramson and his staff and more than four hundred writers, artists, printers, critics, and illustrators. While some of the folders hold single or just a few letters, Abramson had more extensive relationships with many writers and artists, including John Austen, Faith Baldwin, March Cost, Frederic Dannay, Norman Davey, Rhys Davies, August Derleth, Robin Douglas, Joan...
Dates: 1857-1955, bulk 1930-1944

John Guare papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 411
Abstract:

The John Guare Papers document the work and life of the playwright and educator John Guare. The papers consist of production files, correspondence, writings, writings of others, subject files, personal effects, personal papers, photographs, printed material, and computer and audiovisual media. The bulk of the material spans the years 1962–2010.

Dates: 1906-2015

"Love's Old Sweet Song", [ca. 1941]

 Part of Collection — Box 16: [Barcode: 39002137170255], Folder: GROUP 327, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Play, typescript, mimeograph.

Dates: [ca. 1941]

"My Heart's in the Highlands", [ca. 1939]

 Part of Collection — Box 16: [Barcode: 39002137170255], Folder: GROUP 327, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Play, typescript, carbon, with holograph corrections.

Dates: [ca. 1939]

Harry Roskolenko collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 142
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence and writings of American writer Harry Roskolenko. Correspondents include William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, Katharine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, Dwight Macdonald, William Saroyan, Wallace Stevens, Cleanth Brooks, Archibald MacLeish, Lewis Mumford, John Wheelwright, and James Laughlin, among other American poets, editors, critics, and publishers.Writings include a manuscript poem titled "Perfidious Albion," a...
Dates: 1933-1952

"The Time of Your Life", [193-?]

 Part of Collection — Box 16: [Barcode: 39002137170255], Folder: GROUP 327, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Play, typescript, carbon, with holograph corrections.

Play, typescript, carbon, with holograph corrections.

Dates: [193-?]

Register to the Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 30
Abstract:

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the German-American composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and the German-American actress and singer Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)

Dates: 1890-1984, inclusive