Complex sentence: After high school, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1901 with a B.S. in Writing, and as an actor for the university theater troupe would gain him a patron, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst.
Split into simpler sentences: After high school, he attended the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in 1901 with a B.S. in writing, and as an actor for the university theater troupe, he had gained a patron, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst.