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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 972,802 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Damon Runyon is the 5,270th most popular writer (down from 5,069th in 2019), the 8,314th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,139th in 2019) and the 660th most popular American Writer.

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  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Damon Runyon ranks 5,270 out of 5,755. Before him are C. L. R. James, Lin Carter, Kevin Kelly, Kjartan Fløgstad, John of Worcester, and Heinrich Christian Boie. After him are Miguel Mihura, José Carlos Somoza, Anton Donchev, Giorgio Faletti, Horacio Guarany, and Thomas Traherne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Damon Runyon ranks 186. Before him are W. T. Cosgrave, Vilhelm Carlberg, George Herriman, Rudolf Cvetko, Charles King, and Vladimir Sukachev. After him are Oskar Perron, Frances Perkins, Christy Mathewson, Walter Brack, Luis Alberto Riart, and Wilhelm Anderson. Among people deceased in 1946, Damon Runyon ranks 188. Before him are Henry Lehrman, Paul Nash, Boris Lisunov, Granville Bantock, Olivér Halassy, and Mary Alden. After him are Ivan Moskvin, Kate Bruce, Vincent Youmans, Harlan F. Stone, Adriaan van Maanen, and Edgar Syers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Damon Runyon ranks 8,314 out of 18,182. Before him are Arnie Robinson (1948), Bisher Al-Khasawneh (1969), Katie Cassidy (1986), Ralph Meeker (1920), Jerry L. Ross (1948), and Dominique Swain (1980). After him are John Clauser (1942), Haley Bennett (1988), Bill Camp (1961), Dick Durbin (1944), Michael Patrick King (1954), and Bruce Bennett (1906).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Damon Runyon ranks 660. Before him are Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), Rebecca Solnit (1961), Rick Warren (1954), Joe Hill (1972), Lin Carter (1930), and Kevin Kelly (1952). After him are Iris Chang (1968), David Benioff (1970), Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884), Edmund White (1940), Eric Van Lustbader (1946), and Donald Richie (1924).

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