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Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan to Alfred Lee and Elizabeth (Damon) Runyan. His relatives in his birthplace of Manhattan, Kansas, included several newspapermen. [7] His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855, and his father was the editor of his newspaper in the town.
Del matrimonio de Runyon con Ellen Egan nacieron dos hijos, Mary y Damon, Jr. La pareja se divorció en 1928, rumoreándose que Runyon mantenía una relación con una chica mexicana a la que había conocido mientras informaba sobre las acciones de Pancho Villa en 1916.
5 de feb. de 2021 · However, it is in the fiction of one of America’s greatest short story writers that the back-stretch comes vividly to life. The Racing World of Damon Runyon, published in 1999, contains umpteen ...
4 de abr. de 2024 · Damon Runyon (born October 1880?, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.—died December 10, 1946, New York, New York) was an American journalist and short-story writer, best known for his book Guys and Dolls, written in the regional slang that became his trademark.
Damon Runyon gave his readers a unique sense of New York in the 1930s and 1940s. He heard the city talking—its sounds, its con-flicts, its history, its culture—and told the country about that city.We can hardly exaggerate Runyon’s popularity and importance in shap-ing American popular culture during the first half of the twentieth century.
Damon Runyon (1880–1946) was a newspaperman, political reporter, author, screenwriter, and playwright in the early 1900s. Best known for his work after leaving Colorado, particularly Guys and Dolls, Runyon was a prolific writer during his time in Colorado, working for many of the state’s newspapers thanks to a seeming inability to hold down ...
22 de mar. de 2022 · Born Alfred Damon Runyan on October 3, 1880, in Manhattan, Kansas, he became a full time reporter at the age of fifteen for the Daily Evening News (Pueblo, CO) writing human interest stories. Two years later he received his first byline, but his surname was misspelled as “Runyon” and it stuck.
