His story. "The Time of Your Life." was the first to win both the New York Drama Critics Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Born on August 31. 1908 in Fresno. Calif.-a mecca for immigrant Armenians starting a new life and taking advantage of the opportunities offered to them by the United StatesSaroyans youth was filled with hardship. His father died when young William was 3 years old. leaving his mother with three children to care for by herself. Left penniless in a foreign land and a foreign language. young Williams mother was forced to place the children in an orphanage.
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