His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas in 1855, and his father was editor of his own newspaper in the town.
Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was an American newspaperman and short-story writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.
In 1882 Runyon's father was forced to sell his newspaper, and the family moved westward.
The family eventually settled in Pueblo, Colorado in 1887, where Runyon spent the rest of his youth.
In present-day Pueblo, Runyon Field, the Damon Runyon Repertory Theater Company, and Runyon Lake are named in his honor. In 1898, when still in his teens, Runyon enlisted in the US Army to fight in the Spanish–American War.
His first job as a reporter was in September 1900, when he was hired by the Pueblo Star; he then worked in the Rocky Mountain area during the first decade of the 1900s: at the Denver Daily News, he served as "sporting editor" (today a "sports editor") and then as a staff writer.
At one of the newspapers where he worked, the spelling of his last name was changed from "Runyan" to "Runyon", a change he let stand. After failing in an attempt to organize a Colorado minor baseball league, which lasted less than a week, Runyon moved to New York City in 1910.
Illustrated Sunday Magazine, 2 January 1910 The Sucker.
San Francisco Examiner, 10 July 1910 Burge McCall.
For the next ten years he covered the New York Giants and professional boxing for the New York American. He was the Hearst newspapers' baseball columnist for many years, beginning in 1911, and his knack for spotting the eccentric and the unusual, on the field or in the stands, is credited with revolutionizing the way baseball was covered.
After Ellen Runyon's death, Runyon and del Grande married on July 7, 1932; that marriage ended in 1946 when she left him for a younger man. Runyon died in New York City from throat cancer in late 1946, at age 66.
Already known for his fiction, he wrote a well-remembered "present tense" article on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Presidential inauguration in 1933 for the Universal Service, a Hearst syndicate, which was merged with the co-owned International News Service in 1937. ==Life and work== Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan to Alfred Lee and Elizabeth (Damon) Runyan.
The radio show, in addition, has a story, "Joe Terrace", that appears in ‘More Guys and Dolls’ and the August 29, 1936, issue of Colliers.
Collier's, 11 July 1936 (not in Runyonese) Lou Louder.
Collier's, 8 August 1936 (not in Runyonese) Nothing Happens in Brooklyn.
Already known for his fiction, he wrote a well-remembered "present tense" article on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Presidential inauguration in 1933 for the Universal Service, a Hearst syndicate, which was merged with the co-owned International News Service in 1937. ==Life and work== Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan to Alfred Lee and Elizabeth (Damon) Runyan.
Collier's, 30 April 1938 (partly in Runyonese, but includes past tense) ===Film=== Twenty of his stories became motion pictures. Lady for a Day (1933) – Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title "Madame La Gimp", the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actress (May Robson), and Best Adaptation for the Screen (Riskin).
Bentley) More Guys and Dolls (1950) The Turps (1951) Damon Runyon from First to Last (1954) A Treasury of Damon Runyon (1958) The Bloodhounds of Broadway and Other Stories (1985) Romance in the Roaring Forties and other stories (1986) On Broadway (1990) Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball (2005; Jim Reisler, editor) Guys and Dolls and Other Writings (2008; introduction by Pete Hamill) ====Play==== A Slight Case of Murder (with Howard Lindsay, 1940) ====Biography==== Capt.
Kiernan, 1942) ===Stories=== There are many collections of Runyon's stories, in particular Runyon on Broadway and Runyon from First to Last.
Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was an American newspaperman and short-story writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.
After Ellen Runyon's death, Runyon and del Grande married on July 7, 1932; that marriage ended in 1946 when she left him for a younger man. Runyon died in New York City from throat cancer in late 1946, at age 66.
His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered from a DC-3 airplane over Broadway in Manhattan by Eddie Rickenbacker on December 18, 1946.
Twenty-seven of them were published in the 1946 book In Our Town. Runyon on Broadway contains the following stories: More Than Somewhat Breach of Promise Romance in the Roaring Forties Dream Street Rose The Old Doll's House Blood Pressure The Bloodhounds of Broadway Tobias the Terrible The Snatching of Bookie Bob The Lily of St.
Adapted from Runyon's stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure". ===Radio=== The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 (with reruns until 1951).
Adapted from Runyon's stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure". ===Radio=== The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 (with reruns until 1951).
Blaine and Kaye reprised their roles from the 1950 Broadway production.
Adapted from Runyon's stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure". ===Radio=== The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 (with reruns until 1951).
The bulk of Runyon's work had been untapped by radio, and the well was deep." ===Television=== Damon Runyon Theatre aired on CBS-TV from 1955 to 1956. Mike McShane told Runyon stories as monologues on British TV in 1994, and an accompanying book was released, both titled Broadway Stories. Three Wise Guys was 2005 TV movie. == See also == ==References== ==Further reading== Breslin, Jimmy (1991).
The bulk of Runyon's work had been untapped by radio, and the well was deep." ===Television=== Damon Runyon Theatre aired on CBS-TV from 1955 to 1956. Mike McShane told Runyon stories as monologues on British TV in 1994, and an accompanying book was released, both titled Broadway Stories. Three Wise Guys was 2005 TV movie. == See also == ==References== ==Further reading== Breslin, Jimmy (1991).
It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role (fused with the "raggedy doll" from Runyon's short story "The Brain Goes Home"); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song (his rendition is not used in the film).
Perhaps as confirmation, Runyon was voted the 1967 J.
Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), for which he was honored at ceremonies at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in July 1968, and added to what is commonly referred to as the "writers wing" of the Hall.
The film Little Miss Marker (and its three remakes, Sorrowful Jones, 40 Pounds of Trouble and the 1980 Little Miss Marker) grew from his short story of the same name. Runyon was also a newspaper reporter, covering sports and general news for decades for various publications and syndicates owned by William Randolph Hearst.
In 1989, Jackie Chan adapted the story yet again for the Hong Kong action film Miracles, adding several of his trademark stunt sequences. Little Miss Marker (1934) – The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year.
The bulk of Runyon's work had been untapped by radio, and the well was deep." ===Television=== Damon Runyon Theatre aired on CBS-TV from 1955 to 1956. Mike McShane told Runyon stories as monologues on British TV in 1994, and an accompanying book was released, both titled Broadway Stories. Three Wise Guys was 2005 TV movie. == See also == ==References== ==Further reading== Breslin, Jimmy (1991).
The bulk of Runyon's work had been untapped by radio, and the well was deep." ===Television=== Damon Runyon Theatre aired on CBS-TV from 1955 to 1956. Mike McShane told Runyon stories as monologues on British TV in 1994, and an accompanying book was released, both titled Broadway Stories. Three Wise Guys was 2005 TV movie. == See also == ==References== ==Further reading== Breslin, Jimmy (1991).
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