Wholesale Amid the Ruins

Despite Damon Runyon iconic status as a fiction writer and reporter, one particular chapter of his extraordinary career has been completely overlooked. During world war I he was an accredited war correspondent writing a series of dispatches from Europe, he followed the American doughboys through France, into Germany, and back home. This period marked a monumental transition not only in America view of itself and its role in the world, but of Runyon own style and how we could come to portray America. Along with his collected dispatches, this volume also includes his wartime poetry. Biographical and literary introductions and exhaustive notes provide additional information about the people, places, and events that made up his writing. 272 pp | 49 b/w photos