The
Bancroft Library’s new
archival material on William Saroyan includes (left
to right) a sketch "from a Turkish admirer," a photo of the
author in his youth, and a framed drawing of Saroyan
with a passage of his writing on Armenia.
The Bancroft Library's new archival material on William Saroyan includes (left to right) a sketch "from a Turkish admirer," a photo of the author in his youth, and a framed drawing of Saroyan with a passage of his writing on Armenia. (Images courtesy of the Bancroft Library) BERKELEY — The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received a spectacular gift of hundreds of books, drawings, correspondence and other personal communications to and from one of America’s best-known writers, the Armenian-American author and playwright William Saroyan. The rich collection includes approximately 48 cartons with 1,200 books and other archival materials assembled by his niece, Jacqueline Kazarian, of San Francisco, who also is the founder of the William Saroyan Literary Foundation International. A celebration of the gift is set for noon on Friday (May 21) at The Faculty Club on campus. "UC Berkeley is such an incredible place of learning and growing and intellectual exploration," said Kazarian, who earned degrees in communication and decorative arts at UC Berkeley in the early 1950s. "I know that my uncle wanted his library, manuscripts and galleys to go to Berkeley. Students will be inspired by the collection." Apart from this gift, The Bancroft Library already retains significant holdings of Saroyan’s work that it collected over the course of his life and career, and it continues to add to that collection.
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