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Besides getting his savings and personal effects, Damon Runyon's second wife, Patrice Amati Runyon, was also promised half the income generated by all his literary output for the rest of her life.
May 1, 2009 · Signed, Alfred Damon Runyon. The note was discovered in a safety deposit box shortly after he died in December 1946. New York’s Surrogate’s Court declared the note invalid because it was “not witnessed, as required by law.”. So it had no effect on the way his assets were split among the former wife and the two grown children he left ...
Jan 1, 2016 · One afternoon in 1925, Runyon was sitting in Lindy’s with Walter Winchell’s press agent, Jay Fagan, having breakfast when he got a call from the American’s receptionist. It seems that a young lady from Mexico was in town asking for him. Patrice had kept her end of the bargain. Now it was up to Runyon to keep his. 15.
Writer, journalist. Years active. 1900–1946. Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 [1] [2] – December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer. [3] He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon ...
- December 10, 1946 (aged 66), New York City, U.S.
- 1900–1946
- Writer, journalist
- Alfred Damon Runyan, October 4, 1880, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.
Patrice Amati del Grande, a native Texan of Mexican ancestry, was an actress and the second wife of journalist and short story author, Damon Runyon. They first met in 1916 while he was covering the Pancho Villa raids and married July 8, 1932 shortly after his first wife's death.
Writings include the work of Damon Runyon, such as drafts of poems and short stories, and writings of others. There are photographs of Damon and Patrice Runyon and numerous American cultural figures from roughly the 1920s through 1940s, including Milton Berle, Jack Dempsey, Al Jolson, Joe Louis, Adele Rogers St. Johns, Walter Winchell, and others.
Feb 22, 2009 · Runyon resumed his sitting and writing life, and Patrice, as Breslin writes in a nice Runyon-Breslin sentence, “sat with him about as long as the form chart for these things indicated that she ...
