William Saroyan Collections
New Saroyan Acquisitions
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The California History and Genealogy Room holds one of the major institutional collections of materials documenting the career of Fresno-born author William Saroyan (1908-1981), consisting of approximately 3,000 items. Copies of Saroyan's separately-published work (books, pamphlets, broadsides, and plays) can be found in the collection. Also present are original Saroyan letters and manuscripts; Saroyan appearances in anthologies and magazines; articles and books about Saroyan; various types of ephemera related to Saroyan (clippings, play programs, promotional items, etc.); and sound/video items (records, cassettes, sheet music, videorecordings, etc.).
There is a catalogue of the Room's Saroyan holdings available for in-library use. Some of the items are also described in the Library's ValleyCat main catalog.
Other Saroyan collections :
William Saroyan Foundation: Most important among Saroyan collections, now housed at the Stanford University Library. A finding aid is available at the Online Archive of California.
Guide to the William Saroyan Papers, 1926-1981
The Official Web Page of The William Saroyan Foundation
Henry Madden Library, at CSU Fresno
Special Collections Library Book Collections
The George Jean Nathan collection at Cornell University has some Saroyan correspondence.
Guide to the George Jean Nathan Collection
The Conference Press Records at UCLA have materials relating to Saroyan's
book, Three Times Three.
Finding Aid for the Conference Press Records, 1936-1946
Other resources :
- William Saroyan Society
- The William Saroyan Literary Foundation International
- Armeniapedia
- William Saroyan: the Man and the Writer : Fresno photographer Paul Kalinian's Saroyan Web site has fascinating details about his Saroyan documentary film, his reminiscences of "shooting Saroyan," and related periodical articles.
- Useful references for further study of Saroyan's works
- Saroyan Chronology : the major landmarks in Saroyan's lifetime.