Archive of Drafts of Letters and Documents relating to Saroyan's separation and divorce from his wife Carol Marcus, and her affair with cartoonist Al Capp
$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
In all, 29 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Light creasing to some leaves from prior folding, else fine. Item #36630 A Saroyan archive of essential biographical importance. In 1943, Armenian-American author William Saroyan, at the peak of his success and fame, married the 17-year-old socialite Carol Marcus. They had two children, Aram b. 1943 and Lucy b. 1946 , but by 1949, as this archive painfully documents, the marriage was clearly breaking up. In July
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