William Saroyan (1908-1981) was an internationally renowned Armenian American writer, playwright, and humanitarian.
The Time of Your Life was originally published in 1983 by Methuen..
He died near his hometown of Fresno at the age of seventy-two.
He famously refused to accept the Pulitzer Prize on the grounds that Commerce should not patronize art.
In 1939, Saroyan was the first American writer to win both the New York Drama Critics\' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Time of Your Life .
He achieved great popularity in the thirties, forties, and fifties through his hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, memoirs, and essays.
William Saroyan (1908-1981) was an internationally renowned Armenian American writer, playwright, and humanitarian
