Conference Press

Biography

The Conference Press was spontaneously formed in the 1930s when three UCLA students visited Saroyan at a Hollywood film studio; all three were on the editorial staff of the Daily Bruin newspaper: Hal Levy (publisher of Westwood Scene ), Gil Harrison (former editor), and Bill Okie (student of Max Reinhardt); in 1936 the Press published William Saroyan's Three Times Three, a collection of short stories, each with a preface by the author; one of the stories, The Man With His Heart in the Highlands, went on to become a successful Broadway play.

From the guide to the Conference Press Records, 1936-1946, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)