William Saroyan was born in August 31 ,1908 in Fresno, California to Armenak and Takuhi Saroyans ,Armenian immigrants from Bitlis,Ottoman Empire. He was an Armenian-American novelist,playwright,and short story writer.
Saroyan decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some of his father’s writings. A few of his early short articles were published in Overland Monthly. His first stories appeared in the 1930s. Among these was «The Broken Wheel», written under the name Sirak Goryan and published in the Armenian journal Hairenik in 1933.Many of Saroyan’s stories were based on his childhood experiences among the Armenian-American fruit growers of the San Joaquin Valley or dealt with the rootlessness of the immigrant.
The short story collection My Name is Aram (1940), an international bestseller, was about a young boy and the colorful characters of his immigrant family. It has been translated into many languages.
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