He dropped out of high school at age 15 because formal education no longer interested him. He already knew that he was a writer. had learned to type. and spent long hours in the public library. It was from those years of poveity. drawing heavily from the culture of the Armenian immigrant community in which he was raised. that the rich style and insight of much of his early writing was developed. National attention was first focused on his writing when. in 1934. Story magazine published one of his short stories entitled "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze." Saroyan was then only 26 years old.
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