Quote
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet ~Damon Runyon
Colorado Writer
This week's blog is about a writer who most people do not associate with Colorado.
Perpetually linked to New York City by his writing, Alfred Damon Runyon was actually born in Manhattan, Kansas, October 5, 1880. His family moved to Pueblo, Colorado when he was seven. He grew up there, working for his father's newspaper. After military service, he got his first reporter job with the Pueblo Star. He spent the next ten years as the Sports editor of the Denver Daily News. Through his sports writing days he became friends with former Western gun fighter turned sports writer, Bat Masterson.
In 1911 Runyon moved to New York where he caught on with Hearst Newspapers as a baseball columnist. He was a notorious gambler. Craps and horse racing are common themes in his stories. While he was a sports writer, he was producing mountains of fiction on the side.
Eventually, Runyon gave up sports writing to concentrate on fiction, He wrote 32 books and over 40 short stories, and additional sketches and skits. Many if not most, were about Broadway and characters like Sky Masterson, Nathan Detroit, and Nicely Nicely Johnson, and Guys and Dolls. Guys and Dolls was made into a musical and a movie (starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.) Another Runyon story, The Lemon Drop Kid, was also made into a movie (starring Bob Hope.) His writing style was dubbed Runyonese. Most often first person and always present tense.
Damon Runyon, 66, died of throat cancer, unable to speak, and broke. Illegally, one of his three sons and Runyon's friend Captain Eddie Rickenbacker took Runyon's ashes up in an airplane and scattered them over Manhattan...Manhattan, New York that is.
Book News
Beta readers are reporting, and it looks like I have a lot of writing to do on Two Miles High and Six Feet Under. In the meantime, Murder in the Rockies is still available in many bookstores or they can order it from Koehler Books. Also look for Murder in the Rockies from electronic retailers.
Riddles
Q: How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!
What color were the stairs?
Answers
It has a hole in it.
There weren't any stairs, it was a one story house'
Comments
Leave your comments in the section below,,,Please!
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet ~Damon Runyon
Colorado Writer
This week's blog is about a writer who most people do not associate with Colorado.
Perpetually linked to New York City by his writing, Alfred Damon Runyon was actually born in Manhattan, Kansas, October 5, 1880. His family moved to Pueblo, Colorado when he was seven. He grew up there, working for his father's newspaper. After military service, he got his first reporter job with the Pueblo Star. He spent the next ten years as the Sports editor of the Denver Daily News. Through his sports writing days he became friends with former Western gun fighter turned sports writer, Bat Masterson.
In 1911 Runyon moved to New York where he caught on with Hearst Newspapers as a baseball columnist. He was a notorious gambler. Craps and horse racing are common themes in his stories. While he was a sports writer, he was producing mountains of fiction on the side.
Eventually, Runyon gave up sports writing to concentrate on fiction, He wrote 32 books and over 40 short stories, and additional sketches and skits. Many if not most, were about Broadway and characters like Sky Masterson, Nathan Detroit, and Nicely Nicely Johnson, and Guys and Dolls. Guys and Dolls was made into a musical and a movie (starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.) Another Runyon story, The Lemon Drop Kid, was also made into a movie (starring Bob Hope.) His writing style was dubbed Runyonese. Most often first person and always present tense.
Damon Runyon, 66, died of throat cancer, unable to speak, and broke. Illegally, one of his three sons and Runyon's friend Captain Eddie Rickenbacker took Runyon's ashes up in an airplane and scattered them over Manhattan...Manhattan, New York that is.
Book News
Beta readers are reporting, and it looks like I have a lot of writing to do on Two Miles High and Six Feet Under. In the meantime, Murder in the Rockies is still available in many bookstores or they can order it from Koehler Books. Also look for Murder in the Rockies from electronic retailers.
Riddles
Q: How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!
What color were the stairs?
Answers
It has a hole in it.
There weren't any stairs, it was a one story house'
Comments
Leave your comments in the section below,,,Please!