Books from 1940-1949

My Name is Aram

December 26, 1940

Illustrations by Don Freeman

UK edition published by Faber & Faber in 1941

Includes

• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
• The Journey to Hanford
• The Pomegranate Trees
• One of Our Future Poets, You Might Say
• The Fifty-Yard Dash
• A Nice Old-Fashioned Romanace, with Love Lyrics and Everything
• My Cousin Dikran, the Orator
• The Presbyterian Choir Singers
• The Circus
• The Three Swimmers and the Grocer from Yale
• Locomotive 38, the Ojibway
• Old Country Advice to the American Traveler
• The Poor and Burning Arab
• A Word to Scoffers

Issued as an Armed Services Edition in June 1944.

Saroyan's Fables

November 13, 1941

Illustrations by Warren Chappell

Dedicataed to his uncle Aram. 

Issued in an edition of 1000 numbered copies, each signed by the author. 

Hilltop Russians in San Francisco

December 1941

Water colors by Pauline VInson

Included in the exhibition of Western Book held by the Rounce and Coffin Club.

The Saroyan Special

November 29, 1948

Illustrations by Don Freeman

Includes

• Myself upn the Earth
• Seventy Thousand Assyrians
• Aspirin
• A Curved Line
• 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
• Laughter
• The Shepard's Daughter
• The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
• Five Ripe Pears
• The Oranges
• Two Days Wasted in Kansas City
• Going Home
• The Horses and the Sea
• World Wilderness of Time Lost
• Freson
• The Broken Wheel
• The War
• The Death of Children
• The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger
• Antranik of Armenia
• Little Miss Universe
• Our Little Brown Brothers the Filipinos
• The Dark Sea
• Malenka Manon
• The Proletarian at the Trap Door
• The Black Tartars
• The Little Dog Laughed to See Such Sport
• Train Going
• The Whistle
• Finlandia
• The Armenian and the Armenian
• The Man with the Heart in the Highlands
• Bitlis
• Baby
• The Beggars
• Quarter, Half, Three-Quarter, and Whole Notes
• The Living and the Dead
• Laughing Sam
• The Sunday Zeppelin
• Corduroy Pants
• The First Day of School
• The Man Who Got Fat
• The Messenger
• My Uncle and The Mexicans
• Countrymen, How Do You Like America?
• Where I Come from People are Polite
• The Trains
• One of the Least Famous of the Great Love Affairs of History
• The La Salle Hotel in Chicago
• Ah Life, Ah Death, Ah Music, Ah France, Ah Everything
• The Genius
• The Fire 
• The Filipino and the Drunkard
• The Pemberton and His Boy Trigger
• The Insurance Salesman, The Peasant, the Rug Merchant, and the Potted Plant
• The Year of Heaven
• 1924 Cadillac for Sale
• The Love Kick
• The Warm, Quiet Valley of Home
• A Number of the Poor
• Peace, It's Wonderful
• Piano
• The Sweet Singer of Omsk
• The Russian Writer
• The Journey and The Dream
• The Tiger
• Sweetheart, Sweetheart, Sweetheart
• The Brothers and The Sisters
• The Ants
• The Great Leapfrog Contest
• The Acrobats
• Citizens of the Third Grade
• A Prayer for the Living
• Memories of Paris
• The Job
• The Vision
• We Want a Touchdown
• Saroyan's Fables, IX
• Saroyan's Fables,XXIV
• Dear Baby
• The Hummingbird that Lived through Winter
• The Stolen Bicycle
• The Story of the Young Man and The Mouse
• The Struggle of Jim Patros with Death
• Sailing Down the Chesapeake
• I Know You Good
• How It is To Be
• The Declaration of War
• Highway America
• My Home, My Home
• The Grapes
• My Witness Witnesseth

Translated into German

The Human Comedy

February 25, 1943

Illustrations by Don Freeman

Based on Saroyan's original screenplay written for MGM.

Spent 15 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list, peaking at #2.

Won the Oscar for Best Story for The Human Comedy in 1944.

Was the March 1943 Book-of-the-Month Club selection.

Issued as an Armed Services Edition in September 1943.

Adapted as Ithica by Meg Ryan in 2015.

In 1943, Nick Hoffer created La Comédie Humaine, a comic strip based on The Human Comed for  Le Petit Journal,

The Human Comedy was also adapted for an episode of The DuPont Show of the Month in March 1959. 

A musical adaptation premiered at Jospeh Papp's Public Theatre in 1983, eventually moving to Broadway in 1984. 

UK edition published by Faber & Faber in 1943

Dear Baby

November 9, 1944

Front cover by G.K. Lander

UK edition published by Faber & Faber in 1945

Includes 

• Dear Baby
• The Hummingbird that Lived Through the WInter
• The Stolen Bicycle
• Knife-like, Flower-like, Like Nothing at All in the World
• The Dream
• A Time of Genius
• The Story of The Young Man and The Mouse
• The Stroggle of Jim Patros with Death
• Sailing Down the Chesapeake
• I Know You Good
• My Witness Witnesseth
• The Flashlight
• How it is to be
• Mr. Fleming and the Seven Wonders of the World
• Passengers to Europe
• The Declaration of War
• Highway America
• My Home, My Home
• The Grapes
• The Faraway Night

Released as an Armed Services Edition in March 1945

The Adventures of Wesley Jackson

June 3, 1946

Illustrations by Wallace Morgan

UK edition published by Faber & Faber in 1947

Original edition - 35,000 copies

Debuted at #12 on the New York Times Best-Sellers List on July 7, 1946. 

Translated into French and Polish

Razzle-Dazzle

April 16, 1942

Cover and Frontipiece by Arthur Szyk

Includes

Elmer and Lily
The Great American Goof
The Poetic Situation in America
Opera, Opera
Bad Men in the West
The Agony of Little Nations
A Special Announcement
Radio Play
The People with Light Coming Out of Them
There's Something I Got to Tell You
The Ping-Pong Players
The Hungerers
 Hello Out There
Coming Through the Rye
Talking to You
Subway Circus