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This American short-story writer is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. His name became a byword for a Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan social type, and his stories inspired the 1950 Broadway musical 'Guys and Dolls'. Which writer connects the two New York boroughs?
Damon Runyon (1880-1946) was a newspaper columnist and short-story writer whose slangy tales of New York gamblers, gangsters and showgirls became emblematic of the Jazz Age city. 'Guys and Dolls' was adapted from his stories.