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Saroyan is well known as a prolific writer, boasting that he wrote his twenty-six stories for the Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories in as many days. He was 26 when that collection was published, and he rarely slowed his output for the next fifty years. While much of his writing remains unpublished, below is a bibliography of his plays and books followed by the most complete list available of his published short stories. Pulling from magazines, anthologies, and his books of short stories, the archives developed a list that contains nearly 600 unique entries. Included are the publication titles and dates, giving you insight into which were his most popular short stories and which ones saw very limited release.

Because Saroyan’s short stories always existed in the ether between fiction and autobiography, this list is a work in progress as deeper research and analysis reveals more unearthed treasures and teases apart nonfiction essays from fictional stories. But then, as Saroyan puts it, “I have always written what I had to write, such as this. What is it? It's not a story, it's not even a proper autobiographical fragment.” Perhaps like myths and folk tales, the distinction is not necessary?

“I like to go out every day and find a story. Well, it’s not quite that cut and dried, and if the truth is told I don’t like to go out every day and find a story at all. I only like to go out, to go out. I can stay in and choose a story from out of a possible ten thousand stories always in my head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat. If it is time to write, you have already been out, you have already found a story, at least one for every day of your life, possibly two, three, or four. Perhaps even a dozen stories for every day. What is a story? It’s a writer with his mind made up to tell a story. To remember something, or to invent something. (It comes to the same thing.)” – Chance Meetings

Readers and Writing in His Own Words
(Excerpted from Here Comes, There Goes, You Know Who, 1961)

The only readers who are readers, the only readers who mean anything to a work of writing, and therefore possible a little something to the writer of the work himself, are the readers who read the way writers write: consciously, aware of themselves, aware of the work being read, aware of writing itself, and therefore able to get the writing, to know it, to understand what it's all about, what's going on. There are many kinds of writers and many kinds of readers, but the writers who are really writers and the readers who are really readers probably have one thing in common: being on the level without being pompous about it. And it's easy to get off the level, and it's easy to get pompous about just about anything.

CONTINUE READING

It happens all the time in writing, and it happens all the time in reading. When a book is read by great numbers of people, it doesn't mean the book is good, but it also doesn't mean it is not good, it only means it is being read by great numbers of people. The writer of the book knows if it's good or bad, because he knows what he can do, what he has done, and what's more important, he knows what other writers have done. If any of my stuff happens to get a lot of readers, as two of my books have, I don't tend to believe I've made it, I tend to wonder who the readers are and why they are reading those two books in such great numbers. Well, one of the books, My Name Is Aram, deserves to be read, and can do the reader no harm. But the other one, The Human Comedy, is different. There are some lapses in it which many readers like even more than they like stuff that is at least a little better, and this doesn't please me. If the stuff that went off the level is taken for gospel as it frequently is, it can do more harm than I want any of my writing ever to do. Now, you might say that the harm is harmless harm, but as for me, the hell with that. I didn't mean to go off the level, I meant the opposite. I meant to take a lot of everyday stuff and bring out the drama of it, but near the end of the book I went to work and wrote that it appears to be unavoidable sometimes for people to be killed in a war. I went even further and tried to demonstrate that the murder of somebody in a war can be a thing of great meaning-to somebody or other, sometime or other. Bullshit-but I was in a hurry, the war was upon me, and I wanted to get this thing out of the way before it got me, which it did soon enough, and the hell with that, too. I fought the United States Army for three years, and I won. I'm sorry for every man who fought, and lost.

What happens? What is it that really happens to a man?

Books

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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories

1934

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Inhale and Exhale
1936
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Three Times Three
1936
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Little Children
1937
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The Man With His Heart In The Highlands

1938

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The Gay and Melancholy Flux
1938
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Love, Here Is My Hat and Other Short Romances
1938
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A Native American
1938
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The Trouble with Tigers
1938
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Peace, It's Wonderful
1939
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Three Plays

1940

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My Name Is Aram
1940
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Saroyan's Fables
1941
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Razzle-Dazzle

1942

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Hilltop Russians in San Francisco

1941

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The Human Comedy
1943
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Dear Baby
1944
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The Adventures of Wesley Jackson
1946
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The Saroyan Special
1948
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Don't Go Away Mad and Other Plays

1949

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The Twin Adventures
1950
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The Assyrian and Other Stories
1950
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Rock Wagram
1951
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Tracy's Tiger
1951
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The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills
1952
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The Laughing Matter
1953
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The Whole Voyald and Other Stories
1956
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Mama I Love You
1956
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Papa You're Crazy
1957
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The William Saroyan Reader
1958
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The Dogs, of The Paris Comedy, and Two Other Plays

1960

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Here Comes There Goes You Know Who
1961
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Boys and Girls Together
1963
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Not Dying
1963
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One Day in the Afternoon of the World
1964
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After Thirty Years: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
1964
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Short Drive, Sweet Chariot
1966
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Look At Us, Let's See
1967
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I Used to Believe I Had Forever. Now I'm Not So Sure
1968
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Letters from 74 rue Taitbout

1969

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Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon

1970

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Places Where I've Done Time

1972

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Sons Come and Go. Mothers Hang in Forever
1976
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Chance Meetings
1978
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Obituaries
1979
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Plays

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My Heart's in the Highlands
1939
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The Time of Your Life

1939

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The Hungerers

1940

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The Great American Goof

1940

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Something About A Soldier

1940

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The People with the Light Coming Out of Them

1941

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Love's Old Sweet Song
1941
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Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning

1941

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The Beautiful People
1941
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Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine

1941

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Elmer & Lily

1943

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Get Away Old Man
1944
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Hello Out There
1949
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The Slaughter of the Innocents

1952

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The Cave Dwellers
1958
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Sam, The Highest Jumper of them All

1960

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The Dogs, or the Paris Comedy

1960

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High Time Along the Wabash

1961

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An Armenian Trilogy

1986

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Music (Lyrics)

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Come On A My House
Oh Beauty
The Arab's Lament
Eat Eat Eat
Giraki Picnic
Bari Bari

Stories and Essays

Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
1933 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
$2400 For Kindness 8/1/1935 Esquire
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8  2/1/1934 The Magazine
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
1924 Cadillac for Sale 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
1924 Cadillac for Sale 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
1924 Cadillac for Sale 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
1924 Cadillac for Sale 1955 High Gear (anthology)
1924 Cadillac for Sale 1964 52 Miles to Terror (anthology)
1924 Cadillac for Sale 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
70,000 Assyrians 4/1/1934 Story
70,000 Assyrians  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
A Christmas Carol 1/1/1935 North American Review
A Christmas Carol 1936 Inhale and Exhale
A Christmas Carol 1955 Love
A Clear Warm Day 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
A Clear Warm Day 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
A Cold Day 1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
A Cold Day 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
A Cold Day 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
A Couple Miscellaneous Prophecies, More or Less Guaranteed to Come True 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Curved line  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
A Family of Three 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
A Family of Three…The Child…The Man… The Woman 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
A Favor For A Friend 7/1/1957 Escapade
A Few Answers About Television 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
A Fist Fight for Armenia 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Flash of the Flashlight and the World-Shaking Question: Joe? 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Fresno Fable 1/19/1976 The New Yorker
A Fresno Fable 1977 The Best American Short Stories 1977, ed. Martha Foley, Houghton Mifflin (anthology)
A Fresno Fable 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
A Glass of Water 5/1/1956 Nugget
A Holy Silence 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Lady Named Caroline 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
A Lady Named Caroline 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
A Letter to the Old City Editor 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
A Love Story: Paris is the Place for You 10/1/1981 Saturday Evening Post
A Man is a Vine 9/1/1961 Country Beautiful
A Moment of Freedom and Fun 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Moment of Prose in Kansas 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A New Chapter In The Human Comedy 7/1/1964 Playboy
A New Chapter In The Human Comedy 1966 The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader, ed. Hugh M. Hefner, Souvenir Press 1966
A Nice Boy, Even if He is Rich 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
A Nice Boy, Even if He is Rich 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance, with Love Lyrics, and Everything 1938 A Native American
A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance, with Love Lyrics, and Everything 1941 My Name is Aram
A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance, with Love Lyrics, and Everything 1946 15 Great Stories of Today (anthology)
A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance, with Love Lyrics, and Everything 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Night of Nothing 1936 Inhale and Exhale
A Night of Nothing 1955 Love
A Note on Travel  1936 Inhale and Exhale
A Number of Fragments 12/1/1940 Yale Review Quarterly
A Number of the Poor 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
A Number of the Poor 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
A Number of the Poor 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
A Number of the Poor 1949 Seven American Short Stories, ed. Helvi Hakulinen & Irma Rantavaara, Helsinki: Otava 1949
A Prayer for the Living 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
A Prayer for the Living 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
A Saroyan Trilogy: Saroyan's Note (My Shows, The Fire-Prevention Man and his Sister, The Stolen Secret) 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Scenario for Karl Marx 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
A Scenario for Karl Marx 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
A Seaside Friendship 1956 Spadea Magazine
A Seaside Friendship 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
A Soft Word to the Gravedigger 9/1/1965 Cavalier
A Soft Word to the Gravedigger 1967? Weekend Magazine, London Telegraph
A Soft Word to the Gravedigger 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
A Summer Day 7/1/1936 Peninsulan
A Survivor of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Tale About a Wife 6/1/1940 Lilliput
A Talk with Father 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
A Time of Genius 1944 Dear Baby
A Tipped Hat to the Lamp Post 1936 Inhale and Exhale
A Tipped Hat to the Lamp Post 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
A Valentine 2/1/1966 Playboy
A Valentine 3/1/1967 Argosy
A Valentine 1970 Playboy’s Short-Shorts, ed. Anon., Playboy Press (anthology)
A Visitor in the Piano Warehouse 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
A Visitor in the Piano Warehouse 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
A Visitor in the Piano Warehouse 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
A Visitor in the Piano Warehouse 1997 Laugh and Learn: Humorous American Short Stories, ed. Mira B. Felder, Addison-Wesley (anthology)
A Walk in New York 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
A Word to Scoffers 1941 My Name is Aram
A Word to Scoffers 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
A Writer's Declaration 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
A Writer's Declaration 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
A Writer's Declaration 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
Accident at the County Fair 4/1/1965 Cavalier
Accident at the County Fair 12/1/1965 Argosy
Ah Life, Ah Death, Ah Music, Ah France, Ah Everything 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Ah Life, Ah Death, Ah Music, Ah France, Ah Everything 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Ah Silence, Ah Music, Ah Shut Up 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Ah-ha 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Ah-ha 1955 Love
Ah-ha  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Ah-ha Ah-ha 8/1/1934 American Mercury
Alive 8/1/1964 Ladies' Home Journal
Am I Your World? 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Am I Your World? 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Among the lost  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
An Occurrence at Izzy's 1936 Inhale and Exhale
An Occurrence at Izzy's 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
An Occurrence at Izzy's 1955 Love
An Ornery Kind of Kid 10/15/1949 Saturday Evening Post
An Ornery Kind of Kid 9/1/1986 Saturday Evening Post
And Man 1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
And Man 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Another Day, Another Dream 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Another Summer 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Antranik of Armenia  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Antranik of Armenia  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Anybody Home? 1954 Perfect Home
Anybody Home? 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Anything for a Laugh 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Anything for a Laugh 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Applause 4/1/1955 Theatre Arts
Applause 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Apple Pie and Crazy People 12/13/1971 The Nation
Aram Saeetyujkfogl 12/1/1955 Swank
Aram Saeetyujkfogl 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
Armenian Mouse 1969 Ararat: A Decade of Armenian-American Writing
Around the World with General Grant 1937 Little Children
Art, or on Account of Orozco 1/1/1955 Americas
As of the Sun 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Aspirin is a Member of the NRA 5/1/1934 American Mercury
Aspirin is a Member of the NRA 1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
At Sundown 2/1/1935 Scribner's
At Sundown 1936 Inhale and Exhale
At Sundown 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
At Sundown 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
At Sundown 1939 Thicker Than Water (anthology)
At Sundown 1955 Love
At the Chop Suey Joint on Larkin Street at Two Thirty in the Morning 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
At the Chop Suey Joint on Larkin Street at Two Thirty in the Morning 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
At the Chop Suey Joint on Larkin Street at Two Thirty in the Morning 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Axis 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
Baby 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Beale Street 4/27/1997 San Francisco Examiner
Being Refined 5/1/1965 Playboy
Ben 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Best Wishes to a Former Mistress 8/24/1968 Saturday Evening Post
Big City Blues 1/1/1937 Phenix
Big Shot 2/1/1950 Argosy
Big valley vineyard  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Bill McGee's Brother 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
Boys and Girls Together 1/19/1963 Saturday Evening Post
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
California 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Captain of Nothing 7/11/1942 The New Yorker
Care to Look 8/1/1954 Arts
Christians Singing 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Christians Singing 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Christians Singing 1955 Love
Christians singing  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Christmas 12/1/1943 Good Housekeeping
Citizens of the Third Grade 8/1/1936 Harper's Bazaar
Citizens of the Third Grade 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Citizens of the Third Grade 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Citizens of the Third Grade 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Citizens of the Third Grade 1996 Modern Fiction about School Teaching: An Anthology, ed. Jay S. Blanchard & Ursula Casanova, Allyn & Bacon (anthology)
Coffee and Sandwiches at Louie's on Pacific Street 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Coffee and Sandwiches at Louie's on Pacific Street 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Cold Winter 12/1/1936 College Humor
Comedy is Where You Die and They Don't Bury You Because You Can Still Walk 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
Comedy is Where You Die and They Don't Bury You Because You Can Still Walk 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Common Prayer  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Corduroy Pants 1937 Little Children
Corduroy Pants 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
Countryman, How Do you Like America? 1937 Little Children
Cowards 6/1/1974 Harper's
Cowards 5/1/1982 Short Story Monthly
Cowards 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Crazy About Lincoln 11/1/1955 American Mercury
Crazy Hollywood 6/27/1936 Script
Crying Man of Paris 9/1/1966 Argosy
Cuba Libre 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
Daily News  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Dear Baby 6/24/1939 Collier's
Dear Baby 4/1/1941 Modern Reading
Dear Baby 3/8/1956 Woman's Own
Dear Baby 1954 Champs and Bums, ed. Bucklin Moon, Lion Book (anthology)
Dear Baby 1966 Dear Baby
Dear Greta Garbo 12/1/1950 Sight and Sound
Dear Greta Garbo 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
Dear Greta Garbo 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
Dear Greta Garbo  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Death 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Death and Syncopation 2/1/1940 One Act Play
Decision on the 19,131st Day 4/1/1963 Rogue
Don't Laugh Unless It's Funny 7/1/1966 Playboy
Dragonfly 7/28/1973 The New Republic
Title of Story Publish Date Publication/Book Title
Earth, Day, Night, Self 3/1/1958 Hi-Life
Escape by Steerage   Frontier Magazine
Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? 1955 Great Tales of City Dwellers, ed. Alex Austin, Lion Library Editions 1955
Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? 1990 Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories, ed. Burton Raffel, Signet Classic 1990
Everything 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Everything 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Explosion 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Title of Story Publish Date Publication/Book Title
Father and Son 8/1/1955 Cosmopolitan
Fifty Yard Dash 1938 A Native American
Fight for Life 12/1/1934 The Student Outlook
Fight your own war  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Finlandia 1955 Love
Finlandia 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
Finlandia 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
Finlandia  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Fire 6/1/1941 Cosmopolitan
Fire 11/15/1976 The New Yorker
Fire 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Five Pretty Little Fables 7/15/1941  
Five Ripe Pears 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Five Ripe Pears 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Five Ripe Pears 1939 Thicker Than Water (anthology)
Five Ripe Pears Summer 35 Yale Review Quarterly
Follow 5/18/2008 Fresno Bee
For My Part I'll Smoke A Good Ten Cent Cigar 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
For My Part I'll Smoke A Good Ten Cent Cigar 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
For the Love of Daisy 5/31/1958 Saturday Evening Post
For the Love of Daisy 1959 Saturday Evening Post Stories 1958, ed. Anon., Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (anthology)
Four Little Armenian Stories 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
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Gaston 2/1/1962 Atlantic
Gaston 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Gaston Chevrolet and the Great Race 8/1/1976 Friends
Genesis 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Girl at the Bar 3/1/1956 Argosy
Going Home 2/1/1935 Redbook 
Going Home 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Going Home 1943 The Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories, ed. Philip Van Doren Stern, Pocket Book (anthology)
Going Home 1955 Love
Going Home 1971 Counterpoints, ed. Harvey R. Granite, Millard H. Black & Jo M. Stanchfield, Houghton Mifflin Co. (anthology)
Going home  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Good Old Country Girl for Charley 1/1/1973 Gallery
Good Old Goody Goody Godot   Waiting for Godot album text [Columbia Records]
Good-by Dolly 11/1/1965 Status
Great Grandad Stan/Meet Your Author 5/1/1975 Cricket
Gus the Gambler 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Gus the Gambler 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
Harry 4/1/1958 Escapade
Harry 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Harry  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Hate 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Hayastan and Charentz 4/1/1975 Literary Tabloid
Hayastan and Charentz 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Hayastan and Charentz Winter 54 Armenian Review
He Said He Was Sorry 1/1/1939 Lilliput
Hello Out There 2/1/1959 Escapade
Help, the Newsboy Hollered 5/1/1967 McCall's
High Tide and Low Tide 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Highway America 1966 Dear Baby
His Collaborators 10/1/1941 Story
History and the Hollywood Writers 11/1/1938 Lilliput
Home 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Home 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Home is Where the Dream Is 7/1/1976 Think
Hong Kong 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Horsey Gorsey and the Frog 11/7/1965 Chicago Tribune
How It Is to Be 1966 Dear Baby
How It Is to Be 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
How It Is to Be 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
How It Is to Be   Transformation Four
How Pleasant to Have Passed Through Buffalo 1936 Inhale and Exhale
How Pleasant to Have Passed Through Buffalo 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
How Pleasant to Have Passed Through Buffalo 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
How the Barber Finally Got Himself Into a Fable 11/1/1977 Atlantic
How the Barber Finally Got Himself Into a Fable 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
How the Brigadier General Won the War 12/1/1966 Cavalier
How They Got Rid of the Unwelcome and Greedy Visitor 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
How to Choose a Wife 10/1/1975 Ladies' Home Journal
How to Choose a Wife 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Hunger 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Hunger Laughing  1936 Inhale and Exhale
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I Can't Put Two and Two Together 1936 Inhale and Exhale
I Can't Put Two and Two Together 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
I Can't Put Two and Two Together 1955 Love
I Could Say Bella Bella 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
I Could Say Bella Bella 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
I Know You Good 1966 Dear Baby
I Love You Mama Girl 1/5 3/31/1956 Saturday Evening Post
I Love You Mama Girl 2/5 4/7/1956 Saturday Evening Post
I Love You Mama Girl 3/5 4/14/1956 Saturday Evening Post
I Love You Mama Girl 4/5 4/21/1956 Saturday Evening Post
I Love You Mama Girl 5/5 4/28/1956 Saturday Evening Post
I Was Only Kidding 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
I'm Right. The World's Wrong 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
In the Land of the Midnight Sun 9/22/1962 Saturday Evening Post
International Harvester  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Is it Only A Game? 1972 Yearbook 72
Isn’t today the day? Or, Saroyan 1964 3/1/1973 Harpers
Isn’t today the day? Or, Saroyan 1964 1974 The Best American Short Stories 1974, ed. Martha Foley, Houghton Mifflin 1974
It's Me, O Lord! 11/1/1964 Argosy
It's Not As If We Don't Appreciate Your Kindness 11/5/1938 Script
It's Not As If We Don't Appreciate Your Kindness 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Title of Story Publish Date Publication/Book Title
Jazz 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Jim Pemberton and his Boy Trigger 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Jim Pemberton and his Boy Trigger 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Jim Pemberton and his Boy Trigger 1955 Love
Jim Pemberton and his Boy Trigger 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
Joe Gould, Joe Frisco, and American Talk 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Johnny The Dreamer, Mary the Model at Magnin's, and Plato the Democrat 4/1/1939 The Coast
Johnny The Dreamer, Mary the Model at Magnin's, and Plato the Democrat 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
Johnny The Dreamer, Mary the Model at Magnin's, and Plato the Democrat 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Johnny The Dreamer, Mary the Model at Magnin's, and Plato the Democrat 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Title of Story Publish Date Publication/Book Title
Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing at All in the World 7/1/1942 Harper's Bazaar
Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing at All in the World 1943 O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1943 (anthology)
Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing at All in the World 1943 The Best American Short Stories 1943, ed. Martha Foley, Houghton Mifflin 1943
Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing at All in the World 1966 Dear Baby
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La Declaration De Guerre 1/1/1947 Action
Last Night 5/1/1963 Cavalier
Last Words of the Great 9/24/1973 The Nation
Lately I've Been Wanting to Go Away 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Laughing Sam 1937 Little Children
Laughing Sam 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Laughing Sam 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
Laughter 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
Laughter  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Laura, Immortal 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Laura, immortal  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Lauri 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Le Chat ca. 1940 Fontaine
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms   War and Spy Stories
Liberty, 5c 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Life 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Life and Letters 1936 3 Times 3
Life and Letters 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Life, the Magazine, and Harry, the Polo Man Who Didn't Make the Team 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Little Brown Brothers the Filipinos 1955 Love
Little Frogs 11/27/1976 The Nation
Little Miss Universe 12/1/1934 Esquire
Little Miss Universe 10/1/1973 Esquire
Little Miss Universe 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Little Miss Universe 1955 Love
Little Miss Universe  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Little Miss Universe  1944 Stories for Men: An Anthology, ed. Charles Grayson, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. 1944
Little Moral Tales 10/1/1938 Story
Little Moral Tales from the Old Country 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
Little Moral Tales from the Old Country 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Little Old New York 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Little Old New York 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Locomotive 38: the Ojibway 2/8/1957 Junior Scholastic
Locomotive 38: the Ojibway 1938 A Native American
Locomotive 38: the Ojibway 1941 My Name is Aram
Locomotive 38: the Ojibway 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Locomotive 38: the Ojibway 1957 The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure, ed. Anon., Berkley 1957
Locomotive 38: the Ojibway 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
London, Ah, London 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
London, Ah, London 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
London, Ah, London 1955 Love
London, Ah, London 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
London, ah, London  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Look Out, Here Comes Another Lion 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Lord Chugger of Cheer 12/1/1971 McCall's
Lord Chugger of Cheer 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Love 3/1/1959 Man's Magazine
Love 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Love  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Love  1957 Women Without Men, ed. Alex Austin, Lion 1957
Love of London 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
Love, Death, Sacrifice and So Forth  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Love, Here is My Hat 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Love, Here is My Hat 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Love, Here is My Hat 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
Lover's Leap 7/1/1966 Argosy
Luther is Not Somebody to Hurt 6/1/1970 Cavalier
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
Madness in the Family 6/17/1967 Saturday Evening Post
Madness in the Family 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Malenka Manon 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Malenka Manon 1955 Love
Malenka Manon  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Many Miles Per Hour 1937 Little Children
Me 3/9/1963 Saturday Evening Post
Memoirs of a Veteran Actor 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Memoirs of a veteran actor  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Memories of 1956 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Memories of Paris 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Memories of Paris 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Memories of Paris/Ports of Call 3/1/1957 Fling
Money, Money, Money, and You Can Have It 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Morning 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Morning 1955 Love
Morning  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Mr. Feeny's Cheval 2/1/1957 Swank
Mr. Fleming and the Seven Wonders of the World 1966 Dear Baby
My Back to the World 6/1/1963 Rogue
My Cousin Dikran the Orator 1/1/1939 Atlantic
My Cousin Dikran the Orator 1941 My Name is Aram
My Cousin Dikran the Orator 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
My Cousin Dikran the Orator 1953 Stories of Sudden Truth, ed. Joseph Greene & Elizabeth Abell, Ballantine Books 1953
My Cousin Dikran the Orator 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
My Drawings  

Evergreen Review

My Favorite Town - Fresno, California 8/1952 The Ford Times

My Financial Embarrassment

1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
My Grandmother 2/1/1936 Harper's Bazaar
My Grandmother Lucy Tells a Story Without a Beginning, a Middle or an End 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
My Home, My Home 1966 Dear Baby
My Lousy Adventures with Money 4/1/1962 Atlantic
My Picture in the Paper 2/1/1935 American Spectator
My Picture in the Paper 1936 Inhale and Exhale
My Picture in the Paper 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
My Picture in the Paper 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
My Picture in the Paper 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
My Shoes: A Short Story from 1933 6/1/1954 Armenian Review
My Shoes: A Short Story from 1933 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
My So Called San Francisco 7/1/1947 Smart Traveler
My Uncle and the Mexicans 1937 Little Children
My Witness Witnesseth 1966 Dear Baby
My Witness Witnesseth 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Myself Upon the Earth 10/1/1934 American Mercury
Myself upon the earth  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Mystic Games 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Title of Story Publish Date Publication/Book Title
Najari Levon's Old Country Advice 8/1/1971 Atlantic
Najari Levon's Old Country Advice to the Young Americans on How to Live with a Snake 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Nine Million Years Ago 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Nine Million Years Ago 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Noneh 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Noonday Dark Enfolding Texas 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
Noonday Dark Enfolding Texas 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Noonday Dark Enfolding Texas 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Notes 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Notes of Days Gone By 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Now 3/1/1937 Phenix
Now is the Time: A Sideshow of the World Today 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
O Higher Accountancy, O Traffic Management 1937 Little Children
O What a Man was O Henry 11/1/1967 Kenyon Review
O.K. Baby, This Is the World 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
O.K. Baby, This Is the World 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Of Love and Time 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Ohio 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
Ohio 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Old Country Advice to the American Traveller 1941 My Name is Aram
Old Country Advice to the American Traveller 1997 Light and Lively: Humorous American Short Stories, ed. Mira B. Felder, Addison-Wesley 1997
Old Country Stories, Part I 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Old Country Stories, Part II 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Old Country Stories, Part III 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Old Country Stories, Part IV 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
On Malibu Bay 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
On Malibu Bay 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
One Hello and One Goodbye 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
One of Our Future Poets, You Might Say 1938 A Native American
One of Our Future Poets, You Might Say 1941 My Name is Aram
One of the Least Famous of the Great Love Affairs of History 8/1/1945 Argosy
One of the Least Famous of the Great Love Affairs of History 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
One of the Least Famous of the Great Love Affairs of History 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
One of the Least Famous of the Great Love Affairs of History 1955 Love
Or Leave a Kiss Within the Cup 4/27/1935 Script
Our Friends the Mice  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Our Friends the Mice  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Our Friends the Mice  1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Our Friends the Mice  1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
Our Greatest Man 3/12/1966 Saturday Evening Post
Our Little Brown Brothers the Filipinos 4/1/1936 Fiction Parade
Our Little Brown Brothers the Filipinos 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Our Little Brown Brothers the Filipinos 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Out of Order 1972 The Search for Self, ed. Hannah Beate Haupt, Lilla Heston, Joy Littell & Sarah Solotaroff, McDougal, Littell & Co. 1972
Over to You 7/1/1965 Argosy
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
Palo 3/1/1951 Tomorrow
Palo 1952 The Best American Short Stories 1952, ed. Martha Foley, Houghton Mifflin 1952
Palo 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
Panorama Unmerciful 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Panorama Unmerciful 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Papa You're Crazy 10/1/1956 Family Circle
Paramount, Please Let Me Act 10/1/1934 Trend
Paris and Philadelphia 10/1/1950 Town and Country
Paris and Philadelphia 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
Paris is the Place for You 9/30/1961 Saturday Evening Post
Paris is the Place for You 1962 Saturday Evening Post Stories 1962, ed. Anon., Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday 1962
Passengers to Europe 1966 Dear Baby
Peace, It's Wonderful 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
Peace, It's Wonderful 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Peace, It's Wonderful 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
Pebbles on the Beach 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Pebbles on the Beach (different title published) 1952 Art News
Piano 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
Piano 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Piano 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Piano 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
Piano 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Picnic Time 7/1/1973 Ladies' Home Journal
Picnic Time 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Poem, story, novel 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Portrait of a Bum 12/1/1928 Overland Monthly
Prelude to an American Symphony 10/23/1934 New Masses
Prelude to an American Symphony 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Prelude to an American Symphony 1955 Love
Prelude to an American symphony  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Print 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Problems of Writing 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Psalms 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Psalms 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Psalms 1955 Love
Public Speech 1936 3 Times 3
Public Speech 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Pure Agony 5/1/1937 Globe
Title of Story Publish Date Publication/Book Title
Quarter, Half, Three-Quarter, and Whole Notes 1936 3 Times 3
Quarter, Half, Three-Quarter, and Whole Notes 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Title of Story Publish Date Publication/Book Title
Rain 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Rain 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Rain  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Raisins 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Raisins 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Raisins 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
Raisins 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Raisins  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Remember the Joyride? 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Resurrection of a Life 11/1/1934 Story
Resurrection of a Life 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Resurrection of a Life 1939 50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939, ed. Edward J. O’Brien, Houghton Mifflin 1939
Resurrection of a Life 1952 The Best of The Best American Short Stories, ed. Martha Foley, Houghton Mifflin 1952
Resurrection of a Life 2000 The Best American Short Stories of the Century, ed. John Updike & Katrina Kenison, Houghton Mifflin 2000
Romance 4/22/1940 Scholastic
Romance 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
Romance 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Romance 1948 First Love, ed. Joseph Greene & Elizabeth Abell, Bantam Books 1948
Romance 1957 Stories, ed. Frank G. Jennings & Charles J. Calitri, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1957
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
Sailing Down the Chesapeake 1966 Dear Baby
Saturday Night 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Saturday Night 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Saturday Night 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Say I'm a Liar, But I Love You. Guess Who? 1964 Playboy
Say I'm a Liar, But I Love You. Guess Who? 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
School 6/1/1936 The North American Review
Secrets in Alexandria  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Secrets in Alexandria  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Seven Easy Ways to Make a Million Dollars 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Seven Fragments 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Seventeen  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Seventy Thousand Assyrians 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Seventy Thousand Assyrians 1947 A Treasury of Short Stories, ed. Bernardine Kielty, Simon and Schuster 1947
Seventy Thousand Assyrians 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
Seventy Thousand Assyrians 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
Seventy Thousand Assyrians 1999 The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology, ed. Ann Charters, Bedford Books 1999
Shag Mugger's Drive 4/1/1945 Town and Country
Shall We Go Into the Rose Room? Spring 62 Chrysalis
Shout Armenia Wherever You Go 11/21/1964 Saturday Evening Post
Sit Down, Won't You? 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
Six Hundred and Sixty-Six  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Six Hundred and Sixty-Six  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Sleep in Unheavenly Peace  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Snake 4/1/1961 Argosy
Snake 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Snake  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
So He Died Laughing 4/6/1935 Script
Solemn Advice to a Young Man Sbout to Accept Undertaking as a Profession  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Solo for Tin Gazoo 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Solo for Tin Gazoo 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Some Day I'll be a Millionaire Myself 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Some Day I'll be a Millionaire Myself 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Speck, the Special Sardine 3/1/1956 Boy's Life
Speck, the Special Sardine 12/1/1986 Boy's Life
Stanley Rose and the Unknown Writer 8/1/1975 Westways
Summer Laughter 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Summertime 1936 3 Times 3
Summertime 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Sunday is a Hell of a Day 8/1/1957 American Mercury
Sunday is a Hell of a Day 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
Take Her to Vegas 9/23/1961 Saturday Evening Post
Taxi to Laughter and Life Unending 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Taxi to Laughter and Life Unending 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Ten Minutes to Live 10/1/1948 Stop
The Acrobats 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Acrobats 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Actress and the Cop 5/4/1957 Saturday Evening Post
The Adventures of a Young Man Some Day to Be Another Jack London 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Adventures of a Young Man Some Day to Be Another Jack London 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Album of Success/The Great Healer 7/1/1957 Charm
The Ants 6/1/1937 Lilliput
The Ants 1/1/1938 Lilliput Annual 1938
The Ants 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Ants 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Armenian & the Armenian 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Armenian & the Armenian 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Armenian Writers 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Armenian Writers 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Art of Superior Inferiority 6/1/1963 Nugget
The Ashtree Talkers 1977 An Act or Two of Foolish Kindness
The Assyrian 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger  3/1/1945 Argosy
The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger  1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger  1955 Love
The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger  1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Barber Whose Uncle Had His Head Bitten Off by a Circus Tiger  1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Barber's Apprentice 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Beautiful White Horse 6/1/1938 Esquire
The Beggars 1936 3 Times 3
The Beggars 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Beggars 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Beggars 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Best and Worst People and Things of 1938 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Best and Worst People and Things of 1938 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Big Change 10/1/1964 Cavalier
The Big Tree Coming  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
The Bike 2/1/1952 Good Housekeeping
The Bike 12/1/1953 Argosy
The Birds 9/1/1940 The Coast
The Black Tartars  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Black Tartars  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Body 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Boy from Kingsburg 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Boy Who Was Different 11/25/1950 Saturday Evening Post
The Boy Who Was Different 11/1/1980 Saturday Evening Post
The Boy With The Big Nose 10/1/1972 Boy's Life
The Boys In The Back Room 11/18/1940 The New Republic
The Bridge  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Bridge  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Broken Hearted Comedian and the Girl Who Took the Place of This Unfaithful Wife 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Broken Hearted Comedian and the Girl Who Took the Place of This Unfaithful Wife 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Broken Wheel 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Broken Wheel 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Broken Wheel 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Broken Wheel 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Brothers and the Sisters 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Brothers and the Sisters 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Brothers and the Sisters 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Brothers and the Sisters 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The California Cap and The New York Hat 8/1/1964 Rogue
The Cat 6/1/1936 Story
The Cat 1937 Little Children
The Cat 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Cat 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Circus 5/28/1938 Collier's
The Circus 5/1/1957 Scamp
The Circus 1938 A Native American
The Circus 1941 My Name is Aram
The Cocktail Party 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Cocktail Party 1956 Wives and Lovers, ed. Alex Austin, Lion Library (anthology)
The Coldest Winter Since 1854 1937 Little Children
The Comic Page and the Vital Statistics 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Cornet Player 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Crazy Lady in the Red Bikini 6/1/1965 Medical Newsmagazine
The Crazy Lady in the Red Bikini 4/1/1966 Argosy
The Crusader 4/1/1936 Scribner's
The Crusader 1937 Little Children
The Crying Drunk 1977 An Act or Two of Foolish Kindness
The Crying Man of Paris 12/1/1965 Status
The Dale Carnegie Friend 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Dale Carnegie Friend 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze 2/1/1934 Story
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze 6/1/1941 Story
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze 1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Winter 91 Story
The Dark Sea  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Dark Sea  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Death of Children 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Death of Children 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Death of Children 1955 Love
The Death of Children 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Death of Children 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Declaration of War 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Declaration of War 1966 Dear Baby
The Declaration of War 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Doctor Didn't Understand 8/16/1958 Saturday Evening Post
The Dream 1966 Dear Baby
The Dreamer and Dream of the World 3/1/1941 Read
The Drinkers  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Drinkers  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Drunkard 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Drunkard 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Drunkard 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Drunkard 1955 Love
The Duel 6/14/1976 The New Yorker
The Duel 10/15/1978 Telegraph
The Duel 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
The Dusty, Smeared, Tattered Life of PT Barnum 6/13/1964 Saturday Evening Post
The Earth, Day, Night, Self  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
The Egg  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Empty House 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The End of the World 11/28/1936 Script
The Europa Club 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Europa Club 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Europa Club 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Fable of the War Between the Old Complex and the New Culture 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Failure of Friends 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Faraway Night 1966 Dear Baby
The Fifty Yard Dash 6/1/1938 Atlantic
The Fifty Yard Dash 1941 My Name is Aram
The Fifty Yard Dash 1970 Challenges, ed. Harvey R. Granite, Millard H. Black, Virginia F. Lewis & Jo M. Stanchfield, Houghton Mifflin Co. (anthology)
The Filipino and the Drunkard 3/1/1935 Literary America
The Filipino and the Drunkard 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
The Filipino and the Drunkard 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Filipino and the Drunkard 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Filipino and the Drunkard 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Filipino and the Drunkard   Voices of Man
The Finer Things in the Life of Miss Selma Holly 7/1/1939 Harper's Bazaar
The Fire 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
The Fire 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The First Day of School 1937 Little Children
The First Day of School 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The First Day of School 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The First Day of Summer 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Flashing Dragonfly 10/1/1962 Nugget
The Flashing Dragonfly 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
The Flashlight 1966 Dear Baby
The Foreigner 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Foreigner 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Foreigner Spring 48 Armenian Review
The Foreigner Summer 41 Common Ground
The Friend of the Monkeys 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Gambled Coat 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Gay and Melancholy Flux 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Gay and Melancholy Flux 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Genius 1/14/1939 Picture Post
The Genius 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
The Genius 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Genius 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Genius 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Girl at the Bar 4/1/1955 Argosy
The Girl With the Crooked Teeth 2/1/1969 Cavalier
The Good Year 4/1/1936 The New Republic
The Good Year 7/1/1936 Fiction Parade
The Grapes 1966 Dear Baby
The Great Leapfrog Contest 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Great Leapfrog Contest 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Great Leapfrog Contest 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Great Leapfrog Contest 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Great Leapfrog Contest 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Great Unwritten American Novel 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Great Unwritten American Novel 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Greatest Country in the World  1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Greatest Country in the World  1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Greatest Country in the World  1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Hoax of Success 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
The Home of the Human Race 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Horses and the Sea 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Horses and the Sea 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Horses and the Sea 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Horses and the Sea 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Hours of Day and the Hours of Night 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Human Comedy  6/1/1943 Omnibook
The Hummingbird That Lived Through the Winter 6/1/1941 Harper's Bazaar
The Hummingbird That Lived Through the Winter 1942 The Best American Short Stories 1942, ed. Martha Foley, Houghton Mifflin 1942
The Hummingbird That Lived Through the Winter 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Hummingbird That Lived Through the Winter 1966 Dear Baby
The Hummingbird That Lived Through the Winter 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Humor and Compassion of William Saroyan 10/5/1978 Scholastic Scope
The Idea in the Back of My Brother's Head 12/1/1959 Ford Times
The Idea in the Back of My Brother's Head 9/1/1960 Best Articles and Stories
The Idea in the Back of My Brother's Head 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Impossible Saroyans of Fresno 10/1/1962 Country Beautiful
The Inscribed Copy of the Kreutzer Sonata 1/1/1975 Atlantic
The Inscribed Copy of the Kreutzer Sonata 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant and the Potted Plant 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant and the Potted Plant 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant and the Potted Plant 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant and the Potted Plant 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant and the Potted Plant 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant and the Potted Plant 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant and the Potted Plant 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The International Song of the Machine Gun  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Inventor and the Actress 10/1/1955 Atlantic
The Inventor and the Actress 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Japanese are Coming 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Japanese are Coming 1955 Love
The Job 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Job 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Job 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Journey and the Dream 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Journey and the Dream 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Journey and the Dream 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Journey To Hanford 4/1/1938 My Name is Aram
The Journey to Hanford 1938 A Native American
The Journey to Hanford 1941 My Name is Aram
The La Salle Hotel in Chicago 9/26/1936 Script
The La Salle Hotel in Chicago 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
The La Salle Hotel in Chicago 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The La Salle Hotel in Chicago 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Last supper 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Last Word Was Love 7/1/1974 Ladies' Home Journal
The Last Word Was Love 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
The Laughing Matter 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Leaf Thief 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Legend-Makers 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Legend-Makers 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Letter to the Old City Editor 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Life 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Little Dog Laughed to See Such Sport  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Little Dog Laughed to See Such Sport  1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Little Dog Laughed to See Such Sport  1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Living and the Dead 1936 3 Times 3
The Living and the Dead 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Living and the Dead 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Living Multitude 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Living Multitude 1955 Love
The Long Way to Tipperary 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Love Kick 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Love Kick 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Lovers 7/1/1936 College Humor
The Man and the Mouse 4/1/1946 World Digest
The Man in the Yellow Coupe 5/1/1936 Esquire
The Man Who Got Fat 1937 Little Children
The Man Who Got Fat 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Man Who Got Fat 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Man Who Knew My Father as a Boy in Bitlis 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Man Who was Born Under the Sign of Scorpio 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Man With the French Post cards  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 10/1/1937 The Booster
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 4/15/1938 Mesures
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 1936 3 Times 3
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 1960 Tall Short Stories, ed. Eric Duthie, Ace Star 1960
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Man With The Heart in the Highlands 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Messenger 1937 Little Children
The Mexicans 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Mexicans 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Miraculous Phonograph Record 10/19/1963 Saturday Evening Post
The Miraculous Phonograph Record 9/1/1983 Saturday Evening Post
The Moment of Life 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Monumental Arena 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Monumental Arena 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Monumental Arena 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Mother 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Mother 1955 Love
The Mouse 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Mouse 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Mouse 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Nurse 4/1/1936 Story
The Nurse, the Angel, the Daughter of the Gambler 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Nurse, the Angel, the Daughter of the Gambler 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Odds Were Always Right 5/1/1957 Escapade
The Oldest Story 5/11/1963 Saturday Evening Post
The Only Guy in Town 1937 Little Children
The Oranges 10/1/1937 Fiction Parade
The Oranges 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Oranges 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Oranges 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Oranges 1955 Love
The Oranges 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Oranges 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Parachute Jump 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Parsley Garden 7/1/1949 Harper's Bazaar
The Parsley Garden 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Parsley Garden 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Parsley Garden 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Parsley Garden 1968 Designs in Fiction: Revised Edition, ed. Elizabeth Scheld, The Macmillan Co. 1968
The Parsley Garden 1970 Encounters, ed. Harvey R. Granite, Millard Black, Virginia F. Lewis & Stanchfield Jo M., Houghton Mifflin Co. 1970
The Peaceful and Poetic Year 2/1/1940 The Coast
The Peasant 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The People, Yes and Then Again No 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The People, Yes and Then Again No 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Personal Secretary 1/1/1962 Playboy
The Pheasant Hunter 8/1/1950 World Review
The Pheasant Hunter 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Piano Player 5/1/1936 College Humor
The Play that Got Away 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Plot 4/1/1951 Argosy
The Plot 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Plot 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Plot Summer 49 Armenian Review
The Poet 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Poet Ashamed 10/1/1950 Harper's Bazaar
The Poet at Home 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Pomegranate Trees 2/1/1938 Atlantic
The Pomegranate Trees 1938 A Native American
The Pomegranate Trees 1941 My Name is Aram
The Pomegranate Trees 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Pomegranate Trees 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Pomegranate Trees 1967 Great Western Short Stories, ed. J. Golden Taylor, American West 1967
The Pool Game 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Pool Game 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Poor and Burning Arab 6/1/1940 Atlantic
The Poor and Burning Arab 1941 My Name is Aram
The Poor Heart 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
The Poor Heart 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Poor World Turning Fall 38 Seven
The Presbyterian Choir Singers 8/1/1939 Harper's
The Presbyterian Choir Singers 1/1/1943 Encore
The Presbyterian Choir Singers 1940 The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, ed. Edward J. O’Brien, Houghton Mifflin 1940
The Presbyterian Choir Singers 1941 My Name is Aram
The Presbyterian Choir Singers 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Presbyterian Choir Singers 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Proletarian at the Trap Drum  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Proletarian at the Trap Drum  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Protectors of Culture 3/2/1940 Script
The Proud Poet 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Question 1936 3 Times 3
The Question 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Reader of "The World Almanac for 1944" 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Rearward Dog 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Rearward Dog 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Rearward Dog Fall 54 Armenian Review
The Rescue of the Perishing 10/15/1958 Read
The Rescue of the Perishing 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Return to the Pomegranate Trees 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Return to the Pomegranate Trees 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Return to the Pomegranate Trees 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Revolution  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Ride on the Great Highway in the Sky of the Sinking Sun 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Russian Singer 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Russian Writer 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Russian Writer 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Russian Writer 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Same as Twenty Years Ago 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Same as Twenty Years Ago 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Sea and the Small Boy 7/1/1954 Atlantic
The Sea and the Small Boy 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Shepherd's Daughter 3/1/1934 Avon Annual
The Shepherd's Daughter 5/1/1934 Story
The Shepherd's Daughter 1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
The Shepherd's Daughter 1945 Modern American Short Stories, ed. Bennett Cerf, World 1945
The Shepherd's Daughter 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Slot Machine   Transition
The Small Rain 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
The Small Trouble that Starts at Home 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Smartest Nationality 6/1/1972 Harper's Bazaar
The Song 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Stolen Bicycle 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Stolen Bicycle 1966 Dear Baby
The Stolen Bicycle 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Story of a Man who Fell out of a Tree 2/21/1972 The Nation
The Story of The Young Man and the Mouse 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Story of The Young Man and the Mouse 1966 Dear Baby
The Struggle of Jim Patros with Death 9/8/1945 Phoenix
The Struggle of Jim Patros with Death 1966 Dear Baby
The Struggle of Jim Patros with Death 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Stumblebums 6/1/1938 The Coast
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 6/1/1938 Esquire [pen name Aram Garoghlanian]
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 1938 A Native American
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 1941 My Name is Aram
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 1952 50 Great Short Stories, ed. Milton Crane, Bantam Book 1952
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 1956 Great Tales of the Far West, ed. Alex Austin, Lion 1956
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 1968 Designs for Reading: Short Stories by Jane Eklund Ball, ed. Kenneth S. Lynn, Houghton Mifflin Co. 1968
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse 1999 The New Roger Caras Treasury of Great Horse Stories, ed. Roger A. Caras, Bristol Park Books 1999
The Sunday Zeppelin 1937 Little Children
The Sunday Zeppelin 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
The Sunday Zeppelin 1964 Best Stories of William Saroyan (Faber), (reprints)
The Sweet Singer of Omsk 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Sweet Singer of Omsk 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Sweetheart of Company D 8/3/1943 Yank
The Sweetheart of Company D 7/28/1945 Best from Yank!
The Sweetheart of Company D 7/28/1945 Liberty
The Sweetheart of Company D 1945 The Best from Yank The Army Weekly (anthology)
The Sweetheart of Company D 1953 Highlights from YANK The Army Weekly, ed. Anon., Royal Book 1953
The Swimmers 11/1/1966 Playboy
The Swimmers 7/1/1968 Argosy
The Symphony  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Television Impeachment of the Boy President's Assassin's Financial Backer   Texas Arts Journal
The Theater of War 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Theological Student 10/1/1949 World Review
The Theological Student 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Theological Student 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Third Day After Christmas 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Third Day After Christmas 1951 Stories for Here and Now, ed. Joseph Greene & Elizabeth Abell, Bantam Books 1951
The Third Day After Christmas 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The Third Day After Christmas 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Three Instructions; and the Evil Step-Mother and the Beautiful Step-Daughter 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer from Yale 6/1/1940 Story
The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer from Yale 1941 My Name is Aram
The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer from Yale 1945 The Story Pocket Book, ed. Whit Burnett, Pocket 1945
The Tiger 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Tiger 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Time Before 1/1/1938 The Booster
The Train 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Trains 7/1/1937 Story
The Trains 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
The Trains 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Turk Street Gamblers 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
The Turk Street Gamblers (published as "The Gambling Writers of San Francisco") 1957 Escapade
The Two Thieves 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Uncollected Dime 5/1/1957 Western Family
The Unpublished Writer, Rain, and His Daughter 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Vision 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Vision 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The War  1936 Inhale and Exhale
The War in Europe 7/6/1940 Script
The War in Spain 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The War in Spain 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Warm, Quiet Valley of Home 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Warm, Quiet Valley of Home 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Way to be Alive 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The Way to be Alive 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The Wedding Photograph 3/1/1976 Saturday Evening Post
The Wheels of Memory 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
The Whistle 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Whistle 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Wild Boy 7/1/1964 Seven Arts
The Winter Vineyard Workers 1957 The Whole Voyald and Heaven Itself
The Wonderful World of Geniuses 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Word 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The World 9/29/1936 Script
The World 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
The World 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
The World 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The World and the Theatre 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The World and the Theatre 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
The World is Too Much Water 12/1/1944 Yank
The World is Too Much Water 1953 Highlights from YANK The Army Weekly, ed. Anon., Royal Book 1953
The World's Champion Elevator Operator 1937 Little Children
The World's Champion Elevator Operator 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
The World's Champion Elevator Operator 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
The Writer on Writing 1950 The Assyrian and Other Stories
The Year of Heaven 1/4/1939 The New Republic
The Year of Heaven 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
The Year of Heaven 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
The Young Husband and Father 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
The Young Man, The Book, The War in Europe, and Death 11/6/1939 Scholastic
The Younger Brother 1936 Inhale and Exhale
The Younger Brother 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
The Younger Brother 1955 Love
There Was a Young Lady of Perth 10/1/1961 Atlantic
There Was a Young Lady of Perth 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
There's One In Every School 2/1/1972 Ladies' Home Journal
There's One In Every School   Ladies' Home Journal
Thoughts While Goldbricking 10/8/1943 Yank
Thoughts While Goldbricking 11/1/1943 Yank
Thoughts While Goldbricking 1953 Highlights from YANK The Army Weekly, ed. Anon., Royal Book 1953
Three Armenian Stories 12/1/1940 Lilliput
Three Fragments and a Story Summer 39 Little Man
Three Saroyan Stories 1937 New Directions 1937
Three Stories 1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
Three Tales 10/7/1967 Saturday Evening Post
Three, Four, Shut the Door 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
Three, Four, Shut the Door 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
Tijuana the Tramp Town of Lower California 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Tijuana Tramptown 1964 Rogue
To Be a Writer Spring 48 Story
To Be Courteous to Women 1/1/1963 Playboy
Tomboy 4/1/1938 College Humor
Train going  1936 Inhale and Exhale
Train going  1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Trio 11/1/1957 Scamp
Twenty is the Greatest Time in Any Man's Life 3/1/1977 Saturday Evening Post
Twenty is the Greatest Time in Any Man's Life 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
Two Days Wasted in Kansas City 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Two Days Wasted in Kansas City 1936 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 31 Selected Stories
Two Days Wasted in Kansas City 1954 Stakes Are High, ed. Brent Ashabranner, Pennant Books 1954
Two Long Novels, Condensed 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Two Old Armenian Stories, and One New One 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Two Saroyan Stories   New Directions
Two Thousand Four Hundred and Some Odd Dollars for Kindness 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Two Thousand Four Hundred and Some Odd Dollars for Kindness 1955 Love
Title of StoryPublish DatePublication/Book Title
War 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
War 1958 The William Saroyan Reader (reprints)
War 1968 The Man With The Heart in the Highlands
War  1934 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
War and Peace 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
War and Peace 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
We Want a Touchdown 1/1/1938 Story
We Want a Touchdown 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
We Want a Touchdown 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
Wesley Finds his Girl 1/1/1947 Argosy
What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider 11/3/1962 Saturday Evening Post
What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider 10/1/1982 Saturday Evening Post
What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider 1988 Madness in the Family (posthumous reprints)
What Hurts You? 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
What We Want is Love and Money 1939 Peace, It's Wonderful
What We Want is Love and Money 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)
What You Get for Trying Your Best, If Anything 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
What You've Got that's Worth More than 10 Million Dollars 5/1/1966 Cavalier
Whatever Happened to Ulysses? 3/12/1967 West
Where I Come From People are Polite 1937 Little Children
With a Hey Nonny Nonny 4/1/1935 Direction
With a Hey Nonny Nonny 1936 Inhale and Exhale
With a Hey Nonny Nonny 1955 Love
Woof Woof 1938 The Trouble with Tigers
Woof Woof 1938 Avon Modern Shorty Story Monthly, 34 More Great Stories (reprints)
World Wilderness of Time Lost 1936 Inhale and Exhale
World Wilderness of Time Lost 1937 The Gay and Melancholy Flux
Writer's Son 5/1/1949 Cosmopolitan
Title of Story Publish Date Publication/Book Title
Yea and Amen 1936 Inhale and Exhale
Yea and Amen 1983 My Name is Saroyan (posthumous reprints and previously unpublished)
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 1968 I Used to Believe I Had Forever Now I'm Not so Sure
Young Writer in Hollywood 12/1/1937 Story
You're Breaking My Heart 1938 Love, Here is My Hat and Other Short Romances
You're Breaking My Heart 1942 Best Stories of William Saroyan (reprints)
You're Breaking My Heart 1942 48 Saroyan Stories (reprints)

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