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John Douglass Wallop III (March 8, 1920 – April 1, 1985) was an American novelist and playwright. Early life [ edit ] On March 8, 1920, Wallop was born as John Douglass Wallop III in Washington, D.C. to Marjorie Ellis Wallop and insurance agent John Douglass Wallop Jr.
Damn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball.
Douglass Wallop has 31 books on Goodreads with 882 ratings. Douglass Wallop’s most popular book is The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
Douglass Wallop is the author of The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (3.99 avg rating, 279 ratings, 55 reviews, published 1954), Damn Yankees (3.73 avg...
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Douglas Wallop III, a novelist and Tony Award-winning playwright, is best known for the comic novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954), which he later adapted into the popular musical Damn Yankees.
Douglass Wallop was born on 8 March 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a writer, known for Damn Yankees (1958), Damn Yankees and Omnibus (1952). He was married to Lucille Fletcher. He died on 1 April 1985 in Georgetown, Maryland, USA.
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The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, written by Douglass Wallop (who'd go onto co-write the musical's script), is the novel Damn Yankees is based on. And it's a novel that nobody seems to know much about these days.
