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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan, the son of Henry and Lena Bogardus (Phillips) Lardner.
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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre. Born in Niles, Michigan, from adolescence Lardner's ambition was to become a sports reporter, an ambition he fulfilled in 1907 by getting a position on the Chicago Inter-Ocean. He was editor of The Sporting News in St. Louis in 1910 and 1911. In 1916 Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al (1916). Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employed satire to show the stupidity and cupidity of a certain type of athlete. Lardner went on to write such well-known stories as Haircut (1954), Some Like Them Cold, The Golden Honeymoon, Alibi Ike, and A Day in the Life of Conrad Green. Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, though his only success was June Moon (1929), a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.
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Ring Lardner first burst upon the literary scene with his greatest popular success, "You Know Me Al". A sportswriter by trade, Lardner had a superb ear for regional peculiarities in speech and was loved for his sense of humor. Funny, sarcastic, sometimes bitter but always ironic, Lardner understood Americans-- their desires, their dreams, and their disappointments. Contained in "Haircut and Other Stories" are some of Lardner's best-known pieces: "Haircut", "Alibi Ike", "The Love Nest", "Zone of Quiet", and "Champion". Through these pages pass con men; an opinionated small-town barber; a nurse who chatters on and on, much to the chagrin of her charges; baseball players who have excuses for everything; and boxers who try to make it in the fight game. Published in "The Saturday Evening Post", "Collier's" and "Vanity Fair", Lardner enjoyed great success and was heralded as a singular talent by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken, and Virginia Woolf. "Haircut and Other Stories" is a celebration of people and of America, and is a must for anyone interested in classic American fiction.
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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre. In 1916 he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, which was written in the form of letters written by "Jack Keefe", a bush league baseball player, to a friend back home. He went on to write such well-known stories as Haircut, Some Like Them Cold, The Golden Honeymoon, Alibi Ike, and A Day in the Life of Conrad Green. He also continued to write follow-up stories to You Know Me Al, with the hero of that book, the headstrong but gullible Jack Keefe, experiencing various ups and downs in his major league career and in his personal life. Private Keefe's World War I letters home to his friend Al were collected in Treat 'Em Rough. Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, though his only success was June Moon, a comedy cowritten with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.
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Ring Lardner (1885-1933) was a well-known humorist and sports writer living in Chicago. In 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald arranged for How to Write Short Stories to be published and more attention was then paid to Lardner's work.
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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan, the son of Henry and Lena Bogardus (Phillips) Lardner.
He graduated from the Niles high school in 1901, and because his parents wished him to be a mechanical engineer, he attended for a time the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago.
Lardner found himself unsuited to the engineering profession and returned to Niles to take a job as a freight agent and later as bookkeeper. In 1905 he went to Indiana, where he began his journalistic career as a reporter on the South Bend Times. Here much of his work consisted in reporting baseball news. His success on this paper led in 1907 to his appointment as sporting writer on the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The following year, he accepted a similar position on the Chicago Examiner, and, a little later, on the Chicago Daily Tribune, where he remained until 1910. For a short time in 1910-1911 he edited the St. Louis Sporting News. From 1911 to 1913 he worked successively on the Boston American, the Chicago American, and the Chicago Examiner. Finally, he returned in 1913 to the Chicago Tribune, where until 1919 he conducted a sporting column called "In the Wake of the News. "
A brief trip abroad during the war is humorously recorded in My Four Weeks in France (1918). In 1919, moving to Great Neck, Long Island, he became a writer for the Bell Syndicate. In the meantime, the success of his sporting column in the Tribune had led him to experiment with fiction.
In 1914 he started contributing to the Saturday Evening Post his Jack Keefe letters, which at once became popular. The first of these, published in book form as You Know Me Al (1916), consisted of letters which Keefe, a league ball player, purports to have written home to his friend, Al. Always impatient with the glory which the public bestowed on its professional sportsmen, Lardner humorously portrayed young Keefe as an ignorant and conceited "busher. " In Treat 'Em Rough (1918) Keefe's experiences in an army camp are described, and in The Real Dope (1919) he is seen as a soldier in France.
In much the same vein of broad humor, only dealing with different characters, are such productions as Own Your Own Home (1919), The Big Town (1921), and Symptoms of Being 35 (1921). Loose in form, and adapted mainly to serial reading, these sketches frequently grow tenuous and monotonous when perused in book form. Yet they contain much that is typical of Lardner's style and method, especially his humorous exposure of dullness and sham through the character's self-revelation. The same realistic humor, now grown mordant, is more sharply focussed on crassness and stupidity in How to Write Short Stories (With Samples), published in 1924, The Love Nest and Other Stories (1926), and Round Up (1929). Characters too ignorant to know how dull they are make their way through his pages. Often bitter with irony, these stories reproduce with amazing accuracy a conversation essentially the product of Lardner's reportorial skill.
His contempt for the hero worship accorded the professional sportsman reappears in a tale like "Champion, " which describes the career of a low, brutal fellow as he rises to a pugilistic fame. Lardner further exploits the sportsman in "Alibi Ike" and "My Roomy, " strange psychological studies of eccentric ballplayers. Tin Pan Alley furnished much of the material for "Some Like Them Cold" and "Rhythm. " If he could touch lightly the love affairs of an eighteen-year-old girl in "I Can't Breathe, " he could depict with tragic irony in "The Love Nest" the sordid marriage of a movie magnate and an actress, or with humorous pathos in "The Golden Honeymoon, " the fatuous life of an aged couple.
Often influenced by Edgar Lee Masters's bitter dissection of small-town life in Spoon River Anthology, Lardner presents a jejune village rhymester in "The Maysville Minstrel, " and unfolds before the reader in his masterpiece "Hair Cut" the life of a despicable Midwestern town. His use of the vernacular plays a significant part in all his stories. H. L. Mencken especially commends the accuracy with which he has reported the "common speech" of the people, and William McFee asserts his stories to be "fundamentally American. "
Toward the close of his life, Lardner became much interested in the theatre. His first play, Elmer the Great, done in collaboration with George M. Cohan, was produced in 1928, but never published. The following year his June Moon, written with George S. Kaufman, was produced. He also contributed to a number of musical shows and revues. His magazine writing during the last few years had been chiefly confined to stories for the American Magazine, Collier's, and the Saturday Evening Post, and to radio reviews for the New Yorker. In failing health since 1931, he died of heart disease at East Hampton, Long Island.
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On June 28, 1911, Lardner married Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana. He had four sons--John A. , Ring W. , James Phillips, and David Ellis.