Douglass Wallop
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John Douglass Wallop III (8 March 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia - 1 April 1985 in Georgetown, District of Columbia) was an American novelist and playwright.
He authored 13 works but is most famous for The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954), which was adapted by Wallop and George Abbott into the the Tony Award-winning musical Damn Yankees.
In 1949, he married writer and actress Lucille Fletcher; they were together until his death.
Wallop graduated from the University of Maryland, where he served as editor of "The Old Line", a student-run literary and humor magazine.
