Word: saroyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts & Letters was William Saroyan, gamin of dramaturgy, along with fellow litterateurs Samuel N. Behrman, James Gould Cozzens, John Gneisenau Neihardt. Now an Army private, bad boy Saroyan remained silent about the organization of which Sinclair Lewis once remarked that it "does not represent American letters today. It represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." Elected vice president: ex-bad boy Sinclair Lewis...
During the year: > Many writers, some despairing of interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
There are also: Sandburg, Saroyan, Wolfe, Dos Passes, Benet, Caldwell, Anderson, Frost. Robinson, Stevens, many others. Say the editors: "It is safe to say that from no other land than ours, within the limits of time we set ourselves, could there have been gathered together a body of writing so various and so vigorous, so serious in intent and so accomplished in craft...
Fort Ord went William Saroyan...
Inducted into the Army in San Francisco, William Saroyan, the drama's expositor of the throbbing heart. He immediately took the two-week furlough allowed him, went off duck hunting. Explained his family: he wanted to find out what it felt like to shoot something...