Damon Runyon

达蒙•（阿尔弗雷德）•鲁尼恩（Damon Runyon，1884-1946年），美国记者及短篇小说家。

鲁尼恩出生于美国堪萨斯州的曼哈顿。他曾作为战地记者亲历墨西哥战争（1912年和1916年）以及第一次世界大战。后来他成为一名报纸体育专栏作家和人物特写作家。他塑造的人物包括底层人民、体育明星及生活在大都市里的人群。他们都惯用活泼轻快的俚语。音乐喜剧《红男绿女》（1950年）就是改编自鲁尼恩的 《鲁尼恩菜单》（Runyon à la Carte）（1944年）中的一个短篇故事，演出后取得成功。

作品

他的其他小说集中收录的作品包括：《蓝盆招牌菜》（Blue Plate Special）（1934年），《我的妻子埃塞尔》（My Wife, Ethel）（1939年），《放松》（Take It Easy）（1939年），《短镜头》（Short Takes）（1946年）。作品《五星级谋杀案》（1935年）是一部剧本，与霍华德•林德赛合著。

Damon Runyon, in full Alfred Damon Runyon, (born October 1880?, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.—died December 10, 1946, New York, New York), American journalist and short-story writer, best known for his book Guys and Dolls, written in the regional slang that became his trademark.

Sources differ on the day and year of Runyon’s birth, although a birth announcement in a local newspaper is often cited in support of 1880. He enlisted in the U.S. Army as a teenager and was sent to the Philippines in the Spanish-American War. After the war he wrote for Western newspapers for 10 years. Although Runyon gained a reputation as a political and feature reporter, his passion for sports was paramount.

In 1911 he moved to New York City, where he became a reporter for the New York American. He covered the New York baseball clubs for many years as well as various other sports topics, and along the way he developed his style of focusing on human interest rather than strictly reporting facts. He began writing stories about a racy section of Broadway, and these were collected in Guys and Dolls (1931). This book is representative of Runyon’s style in its use of an exaggerated version of local idiom to portray a particular class of characters—gamblers, promoters, fight managers, race-track bookies, and other habitués of the street. Employing an unusual and colourful style, he produced such characters as Joe the Joker, Apple Annie, and Regret the Horseplayer, who became familiar to thousands of his readers.

In the 1930s Runyon began writing columns, and his popular feature “As I See It” was syndicated to all the Hearst newspapers. At the peak of his popularity, in the 1930s, Runyon was one of the most productive and highly paid writers in New York.

As an American journalist, author, and film writer/producer, Alfred Damon Runyon had a unique and unforgettable style that is still recognized today. Alfred Damon Runyon was born in Manhattan, Kansas, on October 4, 1884. At age 14, he was enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the Philippines during the Spanish American War. In 1900, Runyon became a newspaper reporter, and later in 1911 he became a sports columnist for the "American," a paper owned by William Randolph Hearst. Runyon became a Hollywood screenwriter in 1933. Damon Runyon died in New York City on December 10, 1946.