Margaret Keane vs. William Saroyan
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Margaret Keane
1927 – 2022
Art
United States
Margaret D. H. Keane was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes.
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"I had just announced for the first time publicly on a radio show in San Francisco that I had done all the Keane paintings and not my ex-husband. And this, um, …"
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William Saroyan
1908 – 1981
Literature
United States
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy.
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"What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace."
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Connections
William Saroyan was influenced by Margaret Keane
Shared era: 1927 – 1981
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