Damon Runyon(1880-1946)
- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
Born out of wedlock in Manhattan, Kansas, but grew up in Denver. A
close friend of fellow New York sportswriter--and former western
gunfighter--William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, who knew the Runyan
family in Denver. In the late teens and early 1920s both Ed Sullivan and
Walter Winchell worked as Runyon's leg men. Buried in New York's Woodlawn
Cemetery.
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