Collected Works of

Damon Runyon

Alfred Damon Runyon was born in Manhattan, Kansas in 1880 and grew up in Pueblo, Colorado. As a teenager he worked in the newspaper trade under his father and in 1998, enlisted in the Spanish-American War. He returned to work for various Colorado newspapers and became a sportswriter for the New York American in 1911. During the First World War he was a war correspondent for the Hearst newspapers and after the war continued to work as a Hearst columnist. He is best known for his Broadway stories—tales of actors, crooks, gamblers and gangsters during and after the Prohibition era. He died in 1946.


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First Stories
Broadway Stories
Ransom…$1,000,000
A. Mugg
Grandpap Mugg
My Old Home Town
Tales of our Town
Our Old Man
The Turps
Short Takes

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Text obtained from the compilation Damon Runyon: A to Izzard by E.C.M., available at MobileRead, and from scanned articles at UNZ.org