William Saroyan 1 pictures

Writer, Soundtrack, Actor
The Oscar winner and Pulitzer Prize recipient William Saroyan, who gained world fame with his classic book "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1934), was born in California to Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan, Armenian refugees from the Turkish Ottoman Empire which perpetrated the Armenian genocide. With his unmistakably American literary ...

Born: August 31, 1908
Star sign: Virgo
Known for: The Banishment (2007), The Human Comedy (1943), The Time of Your Life (1948), My Heart Is in the Highlands (1976)
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