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Damon Runyon, eigentlich Alfred Damon Runyan (* 4. Oktober 1880 in Manhattan, Kansas; † 10. Dezember 1946 in New York City ), war ein US-amerikanischer Journalist und Schriftsteller. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 2 Rezeption. 3 Ehrungen. 4 Werke (Auswahl) 5 Adaptionen. 6 Literatur. 7 Einzelnachweise. Leben.
Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 [1] [2] – December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer. [3] He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.
4. Apr. 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.
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Learn about the life and career of Damon Runyon, a newspaperman, author, and playwright who wrote about the colorful characters and events of Colorado and New York. Find out how he became famous for his stories of gamblers, mobsters, and musicals.
22. März 2022 · Damon Runyon, 1946. Photograph. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. Though most remembered for his short stories that provided the inspiration for the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon considered himself first and foremost a newspaper man.
October 04, 1880. Died. December 10, 1946. Genre. Humor, Romance, Short Stories. edit data. Such volumes as Guys and Dolls (1931), the basis for a musical of the same name on Broadway, collect stories of known American writer Alfred Damon Runyon about the underworld of New York. A family in Manhattan, Kansas, reared this newspaperman.
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 ...
