In 1932, Damon Runyon published his story “Guys and Dolls,” which soon became one of the most famous books made into musicals. Runyon was a short-story writer and journalist born in Manhattan, Kansas, where he followed in his father’s footsteps and worked in the newspaper business.
Runyon had always been in the journalism business. At a young age, he started working for the Pueblo Evening Press and from then on, his love for journalism began to grow.
When he was 18, Runyon served in the Spanish-American War. During his time of service in the Philippines he wrote for the Manila Freedom and Soldier’s Letter. After leaving the army, he knew he wanted to write and not too long after, he landed a job at the Denver Post. He was a supporter of the…show more content… During his time at The New York American, he wrote many different things. He expanded his love of writing and began to write short stories. As stated by Literal Media, a website holding managers of literary properties in the world, Runyon wrote a daily column in The New York American. Also writing poems, his set of poems, titled “The Tents of Trouble” was published. Runyon had also spent some time in other parts of the world. He had went to be a Hearst correspondent in Mexico and also a reporter of the events of World War 1 in Europe, where he found his own style of writing, according to the Turner Classic Movies website for the Now Playing magazine. It’s stated that he wrote about his opinions of the war rather than the facts of the war, which was what people wanted to read. The most famous of his works, “Guys and Dolls,” which was a compilation of his short story writings, were very successful in sales. The book was actually so successful they adapted the book into a musical in the year 1955. Due to the great fame of “Guys and Dolls,” Runyon later on went to Hollywood to become a writer and producer for movies
