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SAROYAN, William. American writer.
Typed manuscript, very heavily revised and annotated in autograph, in four sheaths, denoting four complete Acts, Malibu, California, 8 October 1954, entitled "The Time Of Your Life." 87 pages, 4to, paper clip at the top of each section. With the play is a Typed letter signed ("Bill Saroyan") to Martini Manulis of CBS in New York, Malibu, 4 October 1954. "Here is the play, with the Dudley-Lorene-Elsie situation removed and all the other situations adjusted to the removal...I think the play is in first-class shape now ... If further cuts are absolutely necessary, however, I am afraid we must cut some of Kit Carson's monologue ... Please let me know casting and scheduling and all that.'
MANUSCRIPT OF "THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE"
William Saroyan was awarded the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for "The Time of Your Life." He refused to accept the award. Here we have him terrorizing his own Pulitzer Prize winning play and strangling nearly 30 per cent of it so that it will work for CBS. Saroyan was a great writer and thinker; he was not simply a man of conscience. His works convey a belief in the overall goodness of life and people, despite inevitable hardships and ugly circumstances. He writes brilliantly about the human condition. "In the time of your life, live so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches."
Saroyan, William
Typed manuscript, very heavily revised and annotated in autograph, in four sheaths, denoting four complete Acts, Malibu, California, 8 October 1954, entitled "The Time Of Your Life." 87 pages, 4to, paper clip at the top of each section. With the play is a Typed letter signed ("Bill Saroyan") to Martini Manulis of CBS in New York, Malibu, 4 October 1954. "Here is the play, with the Dudley-Lorene-Elsie situation removed and all the other situations adjusted to the removal...I think the play is in first-class shape now ... If further cuts are absolutely necessary, however, I am afraid we must cut some of Kit Carson's monologue ... Please let me know casting and scheduling and all that.'
MANUSCRIPT OF "THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE"
William Saroyan was awarded the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for "The Time of Your Life." He refused to accept the award. Here we have him terrorizing his own Pulitzer Prize winning play and strangling nearly 30 per cent of it so that it will work for CBS. Saroyan was a great writer and thinker; he was not simply a man of conscience. His works convey a belief in the overall goodness of life and people, despite inevitable hardships and ugly circumstances. He writes brilliantly about the human condition. "In the time of your life, live so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches."
Saroyan, William