WRITER

Damon Runyon

1880 - 1946

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Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Damon Runyon has received more than 1,031,468 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Damon Runyon is the 6,354th most popular writer (down from 5,251st in 2019), the 11,578th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,296th in 2019) and the 848th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

The Tents of Trouble
Detective stories
Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, Children's stories
[Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The little mystery / E.C. Bentley The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie Emil and the detectives (an extract) / Erich Kästner The inspiration of Mr. Budd / Dorothy L. Sayers From the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Murder at St. Oswald's / Michael Underwood The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov The Newdick helicopter / Leslie Charteris Cold money / Ellery Queen More from the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan The one-handed murderer / Italo Calvino (an Italian folktale) Fingerprinting a ghost / Tony Fletcher (from Memories of murder) It's a hard world / Andrew Vachss Maddened by mystery / Stephen Leacock
From first to last
Containing all the stories not included in "Damon Runyon on Broadway" Why me? The doctor knows best No life Good night Bed warmers Sweet Dreams Passing the word along Death pays a social call
Guys and dolls
Fiction, Social life and customs, New york (n.y.), fiction
Great Short Stories of the World
Short stories, fiction, Mothers and daughters
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat The open boat / Stephen Crane My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes The little Bouilloux girl / Colette The ruby / Corrado Alvaro Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer [The boarding house](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073259W/The_Boarding_House) / James Joyce The brute / Joseph Conrad A double game / Alberto Moravia Maternity / Lilika Nakos Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme [The lottery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3171085W/Lottery) / Shirley Jackson The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht The overcoat / Sally Benson Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore The end of the party / Graham Greene Modern children / Sholom Aleichem Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley The Mezzotint /Montague R. James The alligators / John Updike Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko Haircut / Ring Lardner The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman The drover's wife / Henry Lawson The huntsmen / Paul Horgan The guest / Albert Camus Patience / Nigel Balchin Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote Admiral's night / Machado de Assis The bet / Anton Chekhov The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells A country love story / Jean Stafford A worn path / Eudora Welty The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy The cop and the anthem / O. Henry Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield The nightingale / Maxim Gorky The launch / Max Aub The wreath / Luigi Pirandello The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy
Runyon on Broadway

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Damon Runyon ranks 6,354 out of 7,302Before him are Compton Mackenzie, Kim Leine, John Skelton, Mark Boal, Chris Hedges, and Shin Kyung-sook. After him are James Truslow Adams, John Scalzi, P. H. Newby, Charles Lock Eastlake, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, and Tom Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Damon Runyon ranks 224Before him are Emma P. Carr, Joseph Stadler, Alexander Hall, Thomas Griffith Taylor, Einar Arnórsson, and Elizabeth Kenny. After him are Ernest Townsend, Charles King, Wally Kinnear, Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, Nora Bayes, and Leo Carrillo. Among people deceased in 1946, Damon Runyon ranks 224Before him are Lionel Atwill, Florence Turner, Helen Bannerman, Florence Fuller, Edgar Syers, and Miles Mander. After him are Charles Oman, Herbert Baker, Countee Cullen, John Langalibalele Dube, Gifford Pinchot, and Noah Beery.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Damon Runyon ranks 11,578 out of 20,380Before him are Gaylord Nelson (1916), Erik Spoelstra (1970), Warren G (1970), Daniel Bryan (1981), Robert S. Woodworth (1869), and Harold Smith (1909). After him are Edward Dillon (1879), Mitch Kupchak (1954), Bruce Weitz (1943), Samuel Osgood (1747), Clea DuVall (1977), and Penelope Spheeris (1946).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Damon Runyon ranks 848Before him are Arthur Kopit (1937), Elizabeth Moon (1945), Oscar Hijuelos (1951), Ann Coulter (1961), Mark Boal (1973), and Chris Hedges (1956). After him are James Truslow Adams (1878), John Scalzi (1969), Tom Wilson (1931), Edward Everett Hale (1822), John P. Marquand (1893), and S. E. Hinton (1948).