Here Comes There Goes You Know Who (1962)

Date:

January 23, 1962

Art Credits:

Back cover photo by Ray Stevens

Book designed by Ernst Reichl

Notes:

First edition - 9,824 copies. 

UK edition published by Peter Davies, Ltd. in 1962.

Reviews for the book were mixed. "This is the strangest autobiography anyone ever wrote. There are passages in it that sound like the words of a great and wise man [which he says he is] and pages of deep insight into the ways of human beings. There are pages of just plain boring meanderings in words, which make one think the author is serious when he praises his paranoia." The Buffalo News, Feb. 24, 1962

Virginian B. Wells in The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) - "I sometimes think that William Saroyan is the only writer of his generation who accords human life the reverence it deserves or who recognizes the interrelationship among all living things. With religious care he probes his subject until the vital throbbing core is exposed. That's his particular magic, and he has done it again in his autobiography "Here Comes/There Goes You Know Who."

 

 

 

Associated Materials:

 

In the Forever Saroyan collection: 

Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, 1961, Simon & Schuster, includes original dust jacket, B341

Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, 1961, Simon & Schuster, includes original dust jacket, B342

Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, 1961, Simon & Schuster, B343

Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, 1961, Simon & Schuster, includes original dust jacket, B344

Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, 1961, Simon & Schuster, inscribed by Saroyan, includes original dust jacket, B345

Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, 1962, Peter Davies Ltd., UK, inscribed by Saroyan to Khatchik (Archie) and Helen Minasian, includes original dust jacket, B346

Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, 1963, Pocket Books, B710