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William Saroyan [2] ( / səˈrɔɪən /; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned ...

The Good Doctor. (play) The Good Doctor is a comedy with music written by Neil Simon. It consists of a series of short plays, based on short stories and other works of Russian writer Anton Chekhov, framed by a writer making comments on them.

Her short stories were regularly printed in the era's top periodicals, and her New York Times obituary states that she was "one of the nation's most widely-read novelists." In 1940, a new generation of influential Broadway-based critics began publishing derogatory reviews of her plays, having a sizable effect on her long-term standing.

The stories For Ever A deliberately humorless melancholic drama about a terminally-ill boy (Tim) who wants nothing more than to see snow. His non-verbal brother (Richard) is obsessed with toilet paper and honey and says nothing but "Aargh". Could this obsession be linked to his brother's desire? Too Many Rabbits A boy whose parents own a bookshop buys a rabbit from a girl who owns a pet shop ...

At the Edge of the World (1970) Beyond the Fields We Know (1972) Gods, Men and Ghosts (1972), including short stories, essays. Over the Hills and Far Away (1974) The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms (1980), a posthumous gathering of uncollected stories, essays and two plays.