Great question Olga! The niece who lived there did donate 48 boxes of archive to UC Berkeley, back in 2010. The property has not been sold since 1993, and it looks like it's now a rental. https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/05/19/william_saroyan/
i wonder what would it take for them to turn it into a museum... (i know how unlikely that is to happen, but one can't help but wonder... imagine what SF would be like if it invested in itself as a literary destination...)
Great piece! I wonder what's happened to the SF house since, do you know?
Great question Olga! The niece who lived there did donate 48 boxes of archive to UC Berkeley, back in 2010. The property has not been sold since 1993, and it looks like it's now a rental. https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/05/19/william_saroyan/
and yay, having read your essay, I'm overjoyed for UC Berkeley! Sounds like the competition with Stanford is not letting up!
i wonder what would it take for them to turn it into a museum... (i know how unlikely that is to happen, but one can't help but wonder... imagine what SF would be like if it invested in itself as a literary destination...)