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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 [1] – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre.
Ring Lardner (born March 6, 1885, Niles, Mich., U.S.—died Sept. 25, 1933, East Hampton, N.Y.) was an American writer, one of the most gifted, as well as the most bitter, satirists in the United States and a fine storyteller with a true ear for the vernacular.
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Ringgold William "Ring" Lardner (1885 - 1933) was an American sports columnist and satirical short story writer who enjoyed poking fun at revered institutions such as marriage, theater, and sports. His works were admired by his contemporaries, renowned authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and J.D. Salinger.
Aug 28, 2013 · The Greatest Baseball Novel Ever Written: Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al. The 1916 book traces the misadventures of a struggling pitcher through the letters he writes home to his friend Al. By...
Dec 31, 2016 · How big was the writer Ring Lardner? He helped create what's still called The Golden Age of Sportswriters, the ones who wrote about The Babe, The Ironman, Dempsey, DiMaggio, and Joe...
Ring Lardner Jr. was the son of a famous humorist and a Communist Party member who refused to cooperate with HUAC. He won two Oscars for Woman of the Year and M*A*S*H, but his career was interrupted by the blacklist and he died in 2000.
Sep 1, 2013 · Ring Lardner has never been entirely out of print. In 1946 Viking published The Portable Ring Lardner, a cross-section of his fiction, essays, newspaper columns, parodies and exquisitely silly...
