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F. Salas D. Saleh L. O. Salinas T. Sanchez W. Saroyan
G. Sarris D. Schmitz M. Schott P. Schrag B. Schulberg
C. See U. Seth R. Seymour S. Shepard U. Sinclair
E. Smith G. Snyder G. Soto R. Spear D. St. John
K. Starr L. Steffens P. Stegner W. Stegner J. Steinbeck
C. Stetler R. L. Stevenson G. Stewart H. O. Storm I. M. Strobridge
I. Stone P. Stowell C. Sturges D. T. Swanger R. Sward
R. Swigart










Salas, Floyd
Lay My Body on the LineFiction

Tattoo the Wicked CrossFiction

Whata Now My LoveFiction

Buffalo NickleFiction


 Saleh, Dennis
A Guide to Familiar American IncestPoetry

First Z PoemsPoetry


 Salinas, Luis Omar
Crazy GypsiePoetry

Prelude to DarknessPoetry

The Saddness of DaysPoetry


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Sanchez, Thomas
Rabbit BossFiction


 Saroyan, William (1908 - 1981)

    William Saroyan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award for The Human Comedy, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, among many other honors, was born and raised in Fresno. He did not graduate from high school, but he did develop into one of America's most original writers. His short-story collections such as The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories and My Name is Aram were literary landmarks; so were dramas like The Time of Your Life and My Heart's in the Highlands.

    Sadly, William Saroyan is -- for reasons that are not entirely clear -- perhaps the most under appreciated of all major California authors. His literary output was uneven, but at his best his prose soared and he offered original, sometimes magical visions of what it means to be human.

    In stories like "The Pomegranate Trees" we are offered the view of life that has shaped Saroyan's best work: a generosity of spirit, a sense of whimsy and pathos, a compassion for human error.

    Gerald Haslam; Many Californias: Literature From the Golden State

    Sample
The Bicycle Rider in Beverly HillsFiction
1952
The Daring Young Man on the Flying TrapezeFiction
1934
Hello, Out ThereDrama

The Human ComedyFictionCleveland, OH; The World Publishing Company1944
Inhale and ExhaleFiction

Little ChildrenFiction

Love, Here Is My HatFiction

Love's Old Sweet SongDrama

My Heart's in the HighlandsDrama
1939
My Name is AramFictionCleveland, OH; The World Publishing Company1944
Peace, It's WonderfulFiction

Three Times ThreeFiction

The Time of Your LifeDrama
1939
The Trouble With TigersFiction


Author list

Sarris, Greg
Grand AvenueFiction


 Scheuring, Ann Foley, Editor: By Faculty and Staff of the University of California
A Guidebook to California Agriculture NonfictionBerkeley, CA; University of California Press1983

 Schmitz, Dennis
About Night: Selected and New PoemsPoetry

EdenPoetry

We Weep for Our StrangenessPoetry


 Schott, Max
Murphy's RomanceFiction


 Schrag, Peter
Paradise Lost: Califoria's Experience, America's FutureNonfictionThe New Press1998

 Schulberg, Budd
What Makes Sammy Run?Fiction


Author list

See, Carolyn
Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in AmericaNonfiction

Golden DaysFiction

Making HistoryFiction

Mothers and DaughtersFiction

The Rest is Done with MirrorsFiction

Rhine MaidensFiction


 Seth, Vikram
The Golden GateFiction


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Seymour, Richard
Compost CollegeNonfiction


 Shepard, Sam
Angel CityDrama

Buried ChildDrama

True WestDrama


 Sinclair, Upton
Living Down the StreetFiction

OilFiction
Smith, Eleanor
(with Michael Di Leo)
Two Californias: The Truth About the Split-State Movement		NonfictionCovelo, CA; Island Press1983

Author list

Snyder, Gary
Axe HandlesPoetry

The Back CountryPoetry

Left Out in the RainPoetry

No Nature: New and Selected PoemsPoetry

The Practice of the WildPoetry

Turtle IslandPoetry


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