William Saroyan

Aram Saroyan’s account of his father’s life is an intimate biography that mines the emotional substrata of the man with whom he shared so much. America knows and loves the witty, exuberant, sentimental, brash William Saroyan. Aram reveals to the more private side of the man who spent his early years in an orphanage and his youth as an emotional outsider, and was a compulsive gambler, tyrannical husband, and distant, unpredictable father.