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Damon Runyon
From Anarchopedia
Damon Runyon (born 1884 October 4 in Manhattan, Kansas) was a syndicated journalist/writer.
At age 14 he ran off and got himself shipped off to fight in the Spanish-American War. After two years of guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, he became a reporter, eventually a sports reporter covering baseball for the New York American.
He began writing stories about the bookies and gamblers and other denizens of a seedy section of Broadway, and published it as Guys and Dolls (1931). Jimmy Breslin said of him: "He practically invented at least two decades of his times, & had everybody believing that his street, Broadway, actually existed."
