Editing Damon Runyon (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Damon Runyon House 2012-10-16 11-27-19.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Boyhood home of Damon Runyon in Manhattan, Kansas]]
Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan to Alfred Lee and Elizabeth (Damon) Runyan.<ref>Maxine Block, editor. "Current Biography, 1942 edition". H.H. Wilson, 1942, p. 723.</ref> His relatives in his birthplace of [[Manhattan, Kansas]], included several newspapermen.<ref name=house/> His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855, and his father was the editor of his newspaper in the town. In 1882 Runyon's father was forced to sell his newspaper, and the family moved westward. The family eventually settled in [[Pueblo, Colorado]], in 1887, where Runyon spent the rest of his youth. By most accounts, he attended school only through the fourth grade.<ref>"The Press: Hand Me My Kady". ''Time'', December 23, 1946, n.p.</ref> He began to work in the newspaper trade under his father in Pueblo. In present-day Pueblo, Runyon Field, the Damon Runyon Repertory Theater Company, and [[Runyon Lake]] are named in his honor.