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Aram SaroyanLecturerContact Information E-mail: saroyan@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3252 Office: THH 355 H LINKS Personal Website |
Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
- Faculty Member, University of Southern California, 08/01/1996-
- Creative Nonfiction Mentor, The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, 05/01/2001-07/30/2001
- Principal speaker, U.C. Riverside Writers Conference,
- Speaker, Loyola Marymount Writers Conference,
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Aram Saroyan is a poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. His poetry has been widely anthologized and appears in many textbooks. Among the collections of his work are Aram Saroyan and Pages (both Random House). His Day and Night: Bolinas Poems was published by Black Sparrow Press in January 1999. His Collected Minimal Poems will be published in spring 2007.
Saroyan's other recent books have been prose, including Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation (William Morrow); Last Rites (William Morrow), a book about the death of his father, the playwright and short story writer William Saroyan; Trio: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship (Simon & Schuster); The Romantic (McGraw Hill), a novel that was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Critics' Choice selection; a memoir, Friends in the World: The Education of a Writer (Coffee House); and the true crime Literary Guild selection Rancho Mirage: An American Tragedy of Manners, Madness and Murder (Barricade Books). Selected essays, Starting Out in the Sixties (Talisman), appeared in 2001, and Artists in Trouble: New Stories (Black Sparrow/Godine) in early 2002.
His first prose book, The Street: An Autobiographical Novel was recently made into a film and may be viewed on-line at his website, www.aramsaroyan.com. The world premiere of Aram Saroyan’s play “At the Beach House,” starring Orson Bean, opened for a six-week limited engagement in Los Angeles in 2005.
Publications
Book
- Saroyan, A. (2007). Complete Minimal Poems. Ugly Duckling Press.
- Saroyan, A. (2002). Artists in Trouble, novellas and stories. Black Sparrow/Godine.
- Saroyan, A. (2001). Starting Out in the Sixties: Selected Essays. Talisman.
- Saroyan, A. (1998). The Romantic. McGraw-Hill.
- Saroyan, A. (1998). Day and Night: Bolinas Poems 1972-1981. Black Sparrow/Godine.
- Saroyan, A. (1993). Rancho Mirage: An American Tragedy of Manners, Madness and Murder. Barricade Books.
- Saroyan, A. (1992). Friends in the World: The Education of a Writer. Coffee House Press.
- Saroyan, A. (1985). Trio: The Intimate Friendship of Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt. Simon & Schuster.
- Saroyan, A. (1983). William Saroyan (biography). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
- Saroyan, A. (1982). Last Rites: The Death of William Saroyan. William Morrow.
- Saroyan, A. (1979). Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation. William Morrow.
- Saroyan, A. (1969). Pages (poetry). Random House.
- Saroyan, A. (1968). Aram Saroyan (poetry). Random House.
Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
- Anthology, Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian American Writers. Edited by David Kherdian. Essay on Khatchik (Archie) Minasian. Pages 168-170. Heyday Books. Berkeley, California., 2007-2008
- American Poetry Review, Forthcoming review of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, 2007-2008
Honors and Awards
- 2008 Willism Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America for Complete Minimal Poems, 2007-2008
- President of PEN Center U.S.A West, 1992-1993