Shannon Stirnweis: William Saroyan

Artist: Shannon Stirnweis
1931 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1991
Image Size: 14.75 by 17.5 inches
Overall Size: 18.75 by 21.5 inches
Medium: Oil on Cold Press Illustration Board

"Try to be alive, you will be dead soon enough," author William Saroyan counseled in his preface to The Daring Young Man on the Flying Machine, and this advice was repeated with brash humor and jovial irreverence in most of his work. A literary titan whose illustrious career spanned four decades, Saroyan was born in 1908 to Armenian parents who immigrated to Fresno, California. Saroyan's father died in 1911, and the children had to work to supplement their mother's meager income. Enamored with the written word, Saroyan eventually dropped out of school, spending time at libraries and on the neighborhood streets which came to be so lovingly portrayed in his stories and novels. In 1934 Story magazine published The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, which later became the title story in a Random House publication. Once unleashed, Saroyan's fertile imagination found form in a rapid succession of highly-popular short stories and novels, each reflecting in some fashion his Armenian immigrant childhood experiences, his faith in humanity and his love of country. His play The Time of Your Life won a Pulitzer Prize, and his novel The Human Comedy evolved into an Academy Award-winning movie.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.N. 29¢ William Saroyan stamp issued May 22, 1991.

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