Read: ‘GROWING UP IN FRESNO’ click here! Reminiscences of the renowned author, WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read Introduction to: William Saroyan, An Armenian Trilogy click here! by DICKRAN KOUYMJIAN
Read: A Biographical Sketch Based Largely on His Own Writings click here! by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Dates given are for the first New York production.
1939 – My Heart’s in the Highlands
1939 – The Time of Your Life
1940 – A Theme in the Life of the Great American Goof
1940 – Love’s Old Sweet Song
1941 – The Beautiful People
1942 – Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning and Talking to You
1942 – Hello Out There
1943 – Get Away Old Man
1957 – The Cave Dwellers
1934 – The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
1936 – Inhale and Exhale
1936 – Three Times Three
1938 – Love, Here Is My Hat and Other Short Romances1937 – Little Children
1938 – The Trouble with Tigers
1939 – Peace, It’s Wonderful
1940 – My Name Is Aram
1941 – Three Plays1940 – Three Plays
1941 – Saroyan’s Fables
1942 – Razzle-Dazzle
1943 – The Human Comedy
1944 – Get Away Old Man
1944 – Dear Baby
1946 – The Adventures of Wesley Jackson
1947 – Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine
1948 – The Saroyan Special
1949 – Don’t Go Away Mad and Other Plays
1950 – The Twin Adventures
1950 – The Assyrian and Other Stories
1951 – Rock Wagram
1951 – Tracy’s Tiger
1952 – The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills
1953 – The Laughing Matter
1956 – The Whole Voyald and Other Stories
1956 – Mama I Love You
1957 – Papa You’re Crazy
1958 – The Cave Dwellers
1958 – The William Saroyan Reader
1961 – Here Comes There Goes You Know Who
1963 – Boys and Girls Together
1963 – Not Dying
1964 – One Day in the Afternoon of the World
1964 – After Thirty Years: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
1966 – Short Drive, Sweet Chariot
1967 – Look At Us, Let’s See
1968 – I Used to Believe I Had Forever, Now I’m Not So Sure
1969 – The Dogs, or the Paris Comedy, and Two Other Plays
1970 – Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon
1976 – Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever
1978 – Chance Meetings
1979 – Obituaries
William Saroyan, My Name is Saroyan, 1983
William Saroyan, Births, 1983
William Saroyan, An Armenian Trilogy, 1986
Warsaw Visitor, Tales from the Vienna Streets, The Last Two Plays of William Saroyan, 1991
Fresno Stories, William Saroyan, 1994
Saroyan Memoirs, 1994
Five Ripe Pears (special fine press/illustrated ed., San Francisco: Peter Koch, 1996)
Comma I: A Short Story (Covelo. CA: Yolla Bolly Press and Stanford: Stanford University, 1998)
Where the Bones Go, ed. by Robert Setrakian (Fresno: Press at California State University, Fresno, 2002)
Saroyan on Art, ed. by William B. Secrest, Jr. (Fresno: Fresno County Public Library, 2002)
Saroyan on Music, ed. by William B. Secrest, Jr. (Fresno: Fresno County Public Library, 2002)
Saroyan on the Fresno County Public Library, ed. by William B. Secrest, Jr. (Fresno: Fresno County Public Library, 2002)
Saroyan on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors and Words, ed. by Jacqueline Pilar (Fresno: Fresno Art Museum, 2002)
Essential Saroyan, ed. by William E. Justice (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2005)
In 2008, Heyday Books will release a centennial anthology of Saroyan’s writings edited by William E. Justice, and Craven Street Books will release a book of watercolor illustrations by Pat Hunter depicting various places associated with Saroyan, with text by Janice Stevens.