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Devouring egomania.(Book Review)
John Leggett A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan. Alfred A. Knopf, 496 pages, $30
The promising and, in the end, horrifying career of William Saroyan is a case study in the limits of raw talent. Talent Saroyan undoubtedly possessed, and in abundance. But he refused to refine it or develop it, refused to educate or to discipline himself, scorned the role of apprentice, scorned any role, in fact, but that of genius. As a result his early and meteoric success was succeeded by a long, humiliating, inevitable decline. As John Leggett points out in his grimly fascinating new biography, by the time Saroyan was in his mid-thirties he was already a ...
- A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan.(Book Review)
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- Press release article from: Business Wire November 3, 2003 700+ words
...film was produced as a tribute to William Saroyan, the Armenian-American author who...Flying Trapeze, making 26-year-old William Saroyan an overnight literary sensation...his play, The Time of Your Life. William Saroyan achieved much of his success and popularity...
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