William Saroyan
Born in Fresno, California, 31 August 1908. Died May 18, 1981.
Stage Works
- The Man with the Heart in the Highlands. revised version, as My Heart's in the Highlands (produced 1939), 1939.
- The Time of Your Life (produced 1939).
- The Hungerers (produced 1945). 1939.
- Love's Old Sweet Song (produced 1940).
- Radio Play (broadcast 1940).
- Subway Circus. 1940.
- Something About a Soldier (produced 1940).
- Hero of the World (produced 1940).
- A Special Announcement (broadcast 1940). 1940.
- The Great American Goof (ballet scenario; produced 1940).
- The Ping-Pong Game (produced 1945). 1940;
- Sweeney in the Trees (produced 1940).
- The Beautiful People (produced 1941).
- Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning (produced 1941).
- Hello, Out There, music by Jack Beeson (produced 1941).
- There's Something I Got to Tell You (broadcast 1941).
- The People with Light Coming Out of Them (broadcast 1941).
- Jim Dandy (produced 1941). 1941; as Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine, 1947.
- Talking to You (produced 1942).
- Opera, Opera (produced 1955).
- Bad Men in the West (produced 1971).
- Get Away Old Man (produced 1943). 1944.
- Sam Ego's House (produced 1947).
- Don't Go Away Mad (produced 1949).
- The Son (produced 1950).
- The Oyster and the Pearl (televised 1953).
- A Lost Child's Fireflies (produced 1954).
- Once Around the Block (produced 1956). 1959.
- The Cave Dwellers (produced 1957). 1958.
- Ever Been in Love with a Midget (produced 1957).
- The Slaughter of the Innocents (produced 1957). 1958.
- Cat, Mouse, Man, Woman. 1958.
- The Accident. 1958.
- The Dogs; or, The Paris Comedy (as The Paris Comedy; or The Secret of Lily, produced 1960; as Lily Dafon, produced 1960).
- Settled Out of Court, with Henry Cecil, from the novel by Cecil (produced 1960). 1962.
- Sam, The Highest Jumper of Them All; or, The London Comedy (produced 1960). 1961.
- High Time along the Wabash (produced 1961).
- Ah Man, music by Peter Fricker (produced 1962).
- Dentist and Patient.
- Husband and Wife. 1968
- Making Money, and Nineteen Other Very Short Plays (televised 1970)..
- The New Play. 1970.
- People's Lives (produced 1974).
- Armenians (produced 1974).
- The Rebirth Celebration of the Human Race at Artie Zabala's Off-Broadway Theatre (produced 1975).
SCREENPLAYS:
- The Good Job (documentary), 1942;
- The Human Comedy, with Howard Estabrook, 1943.
RADIO PLAYS:
- Radio Play, 1940 ;
- A Special Announcement, 1940;
- There's Something I Got to Tell You, 1941;
- The People with Light Coming Out of Them, 1941.
TELEVISION PLAYS:
- The Oyster and the Pearl, 1953;
- Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy, 1959;
- The Unstoppable Gray Fox, 1962;
- Making Money, and Nineteen Other Very Short Plays, 1970.