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Definition of Saroyan
1. Noun. United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saroyan
Literary usage of Saroyan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"... by Robert E. Sherwood 1939-40—The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan
1940-41—There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood 1941-42—No award. ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Sydney D. Bailey, 1950 It has also been used sometimes with as to or in: Masterfully
economical as to words, Mr. Saroyan is -. almost recklessly prodigal as ..."
3. A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature by Martha L. Brogan, Daphnée Rentfrow (2005)
"William McPheron William McPheron is William Saroyan Curator for British and
American Literature and head of the Humanities Resource Group at Stanford ..."
4. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Theodore Rockwell (2003)
"... or a William Saroyan play, about a good old-fashioned American town meeting,
with friends and neighbors having their simple, blunt say. ..."
5. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Theodore Rockwell (2003)
"It had a strong flavor of a Norman Rockwell painting or a William Saroyan play,
about a good old-fashioned American town meeting, with friends and neighbors ..."
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