... stayed strong for decades. Over the next fifty years, he wrote over fifty novels, plays, screenplays, short story collections, and memoirs, including The Adventures of Wesley Jackson, Three Times Three, Obituaries, and perhaps most famously, the semi-autobiographical My Name is Aram, about an Armenian-American boy growing up in Fresno, ... was just two years old, his father died, and his mother was forced to put her four young children in an orphanage for five years until she could earn enough money to support the family. At age eighteen, Saroyan dropped out of high school and worked a ...

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