William Saroyan and Garig Basmadjian (interview date 25 May 1975)


William Saroyan and Garig Basmadjian (interview date 25 May 1975)

SOURCE: Saroyan, William, and Garig Basmadjian. “Candid Conversation.” In William Saroyan: The Man and the Writer Remembered, edited by Leo Hamalian, pp. 132-57. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987.

[In the following interview, originally conducted in 1975, Saroyan discusses his life and works with Basmadjian.]

(25 May 1975 in Paris)

[Basmadjian]: In February 1934 Story published The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze....

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