Damon Runyon
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title:
Damon Runyon
text:
Alfred Damon Runyon was an American journalist 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. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan. The adjective Runyonesque refers to this type of character and the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicts. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers,
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American writer (1880–1946)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Runyon
date created:
2002-01-14T22:11:17Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T22:44:49Z
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