All the Drama: “The Time of Your Life”, 1940 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “The Time of Your Life”
1940 Pulitzer winner “The Time of Your Life” by William Saroyan

Time of Your Life Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_Your_Life

William Saroyan Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Saroyan

The William Saroyan Foundation
https://williamsaroyanfoundation.org/

The Time of Your Life script
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Your-Life-Modern-Plays/dp/1408113945/

“A Night at Nick’s” by Wolcott Gibbs, The New Yorker (review of the original production)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/11/04/1939-11-04-027-tny-cards-000001220

“The Time of His Life” by Elizabeth R. Valentine, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/04/20/archives/the-time-of-his-life-the-time-of-his-life.html

“Twenty Years of Writing” by William Saroyan
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1955/05/twenty-years-of-writing/641158/

DEAD AT 72; WROTE ‘THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE’, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/19/obituaries/william-saroyan-is-dead-at-72-wrote-the-time-of-your-life.html

“Play: Time of Your Life” by Clive Barnes, The New York Times (1975 revival review)
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/29/archives/play-time-of-your-life-the-acting-company-in-a-saroyan-revival.html

“The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” by William Saroyan
https://www.amazon.com/Daring-Flying-Trapeze-Directions-Classic/dp/081121365X/

“A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan” by John Leggett
https://www.amazon.com/Daring-Young-Man-Biography-William/dp/0375413014/

“LAST RITES: The Death of William Saroyan” by Aram Saroyan
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rites-Death-William-Saroyan/dp/0688021468/

Booknotes+ Podcast: Aram Saroyan, author of “Last Rites,” on His Father William Saroyan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3NOpQJXKOo

William Saroyan on the Dick Cavett show, 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mncR8HV2qeg

Interview with William Saroyan, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpYVY8rMW2E

The Time of Your Life movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BlNbcIbyDA

William Saroyan Artwork
https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-saroyan

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.