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On August 31 William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, to Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan. Only three years later Saroyan’s father, Armenak, died at the early age of thirty-six. He was to remain in William’s mind as a very dim memory, but also as an enduring source of motivation and encouragement, for Armenak had also been a writer, an unpublished one. The son meant to succeed where the father, under impossible circumstances, had failed. "Laughed, burned finger, squawked, laughed, fell off chair, squawked, laughed, chased a rabbit, didn’t catch it, squawked." Following their father’s death, William, his brother Henry, and his sisters Zabel and Cozette spent several years at the Fred Finch Orphanage in Oakland, while Armenak’s young widow Takoohi took up menial work in nearby San Francisco.