Drawing on interviews and Saroyan's letters, notes, and diaries, this evocative, full-rounded portrait of acclaimed writer William Saroyan follows him from his harsh youth in an orphanage, through his early literary successes and two marriages to Carol Marcus, to his rise to the heights of literary fame and dramatic fall at the end of his life. 15,000 first printing.

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