RUNYON, DAMON. Famed newspaper and short-story writer whose characters were drawn from the netherworld of Times Square; b. Alfred Damon Runyon , Manhattan, Kansas, ; d. New York, New York, .
Damon Runyon was a newspaper columnist, short-story writer, and inventor and recorder of slang who used Broadway and Times Square as the backdrop for many of his works. Runyon was a regular fixture at various Times Square haunts, particularly Lindy’s, which he immortalized...