Career

An American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.During his short but highly successful career as writer Lardner enjoyed great popularity among his readership who came to love his satirical and effective use of vernacular slang, replete with typos, grammatical errors, and run-on sentences.

Achievements

• FILMOGRAPHY Associate in Science ACTOR
  
  "Glorifying the American Girl" (7-Dec-1929) - Himself

Works

• book

  • You Know Me, Al: A Busher's Letters (1916)

  • How to Write Short Stories (1924)

  • The Story of a Wonder Man: Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner (1927, memoir)

  • Treat 'Em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer (1918)

• story

  • Golden Honeymoon

  • Haircut

  • Alibi Ike

• Other Work

  • Some Like Them Cold

  • A Day in the Life of Conrad Green

Connections

Father:

Henry Lardner (1839-1914)

Mother:

Lena (1843-1919)

Brother:

Rex Lardner

Wife:

Ellis Abbott (until his death, d. 15-Feb-1960)

Son:

John Lardner

Son:

Jim Lardner

Son:

David Lardner

Son:

Ring Lardner, Jr.