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Born in August 31, 1908 / Died in May 18, 1981 / United States / English

Bibliography

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Books

  • The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
  • Inhale and Exhale (1936)
  • Three Times Three (1936)
  • Little Children (1937)
  • The Trouble With Tigers (1938)
  • Peace, It's Wonderful (1939)
  • Love Here Is My Hat (1938)
  • My Name Is Aram (1940)
  • Razzle-Dazzle (1942)
  • The Human Comedy (1943)
  • Get Away Old Man (1944)
  • Dear Baby (1944)
  • The Adventures of Wesley Jackson (1946)
  • The Twin Adventures (1950) Saroyan's journal with reprint ofWesley Jackson
  • Rock Wagram (1951)
  • Tracy's Tiger (1952)
  • The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills (1952)
  • The Laughing Matter (1953)
  • Love (1955)
  • The Whole Voyald and Other Stories (1956)
  • Mama I Love You (1956)
  • Papa You're Crazy (1957)
  • Here Comes, There Goes, You Know Who (1962)
    • Gaston (1962), short story collected in Madness...
  • Boys and Girls Together (1963)
  • Not Dying (1963)
  • One Day in the Afternoon of the World (1964)
  • Short Drive, Sweet Chariot (1966)
  • I Used to Believe I Had Forever, Now I'm Not So Sure (1968)
  • The Man with the Heart in the Highlands and other stories(1968)
  • Letter from 74 rue Taitbout (1971)
  • Places Where I've Done Time 1972 (original printing possibly 1957[citation needed])
  • Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon (1973)
  • Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang i Forever (1976)
  • Chance Meetings (1978)
  • Obituaries (1979)
  • Births (1983)
  • My name is Saroyan (1983)
  • Madness in the Family (1988), collected late stories
Short stories
  • "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8"
  • "An Ornery Kind of Kid"
  • "The Filipino and the Drunkard"
  • "Gaston" (date unknown)
  • "The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter"
  • "Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World" (1942)
  • "The Mourner"
  • "The Parsley Garden"
  • "Resurrection of a Life" (1935)
  • The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (1938)
  • "Seventy Thousand Assyrians" (1934)
  • "The Shepherd's Daughter"
  • "Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart"
  • "Third day after Christmas" (1926)
  • "Five Ripe Pears" (1935)
  • "Pomegranate Trees" (year unknown)
Plays
  • The Time of Your Life (1939) – winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  • My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
  • Elmer and Lily (1939)
  • Three plays (1940):
  • My heart’s in the Highlands
  • The time of your life
  • Love’s old sweet song
  • The Agony of Little Nations (1940)
  • Hello Out There (1941)
  • Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning (1941)
  • The Beautiful People (1941)
  • Bad Men in the West (1942)
  • Talking to You (1942)
  • Coming Through the Rye (1942)
  • Don't Go Away Mad (1947)
  • Jim Dandy (1947)
  • The Slaughter of the Innocents (1952)
  • The Oyster and the Pearl (Television Play) (1953)
  • The Stolen Secret (1954)
  • The Cave Dwellers (1958)
  • Sam, The Highest Jumper Of Them All, or the London Comedy(1960)
  • Hanging around the Wabash (1961)
  • The Dogs, or the Paris Comedy (1969)
  • Armenian (1971)
  • Assassinations (1974)
  • Tales from the Vienna Streets (1980)
  • An Armenian Trilogy (1986)
  • The Parsley Garden (1992)
Song
  • "Come On-a My House", a hit for Rosemary Clooney, based on an Armenian folk song, written with his cousin, Ross Bagdasarian, later the impresario of Alvin and the Chipmunks.