Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 - September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre. March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is in need of attention. ...

Life and career

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; he contributed columns to the Boston American, Chicago American and others until 1919 when he joined a syndicate. Niles is a city located in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... The Sporting News (TSN) is an American-based sports newspaper. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Location Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates , Government Country State County United States Missouri Independent City Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 66. ...

Lardner was married to Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana in 1911.

In 1916 Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al (sic), which was written in the form of letters written by a bush league baseball player to a friend back home. It had initially been published as six separate, but inter-related short stories in The Saturday Evening Post, leading some to classify the book as a collection of short stories, while others have classified it as a novel. Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employed satire to show the stupidity and cupidity of a certain type of athlete. 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... A cover of the Saturday Evening Post from 1903 The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, 1969. ... The World According To Ronald Reagan - a Finnish satirical poster from 1984 Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ...

Lardner 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 WWI letters home to his friend Al were collected in Treat 'Em Rough. Alibi Ike is a series of short stories written by Ring Lardner and first publised in the Saturday Evening Post on July 31, 1915. ... WWI may be an acronym for: World War I World Wrestling Industry This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Treat Em Rough (1942) is a movie about a boxer called the Panama Kid (Eddie Albert) who returns to his hometown with his trainer Hotfoot (William Frawley, who later played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy) and valet Snake Eyes (Mantan Moreland) when his father (Lloyd Corrigan) is accused of...

Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, though his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman. He did write a series of brief nonsense plays which poked fun at the conventions of the theatre using zany, offbeat humor and outrageous, impossible stage directions, such as "The curtain is lowered for seven days to denote the lapse of a week". Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was a playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic noted for his many collaborations with other writers and his contributions to 20th century American comedy. ...

Lardner was a close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other writers of the Jazz Age, and was published by Fitzgerald's editor, Maxwell Perkins. He was in some respects the model for the tragic character Abe North in Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender Is the Night. Lardner never intentionally wrote a novel, but is considered by many to be one of America's best writers of the short story. F.Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Scott Fitzgerald redirects here. ... The Jazz Age describes the period of the 1920s and 1930s, the years between World War I and World War II, particularly in North America, largely coinciding with the Roaring Twenties; with the rise of the Great Depression, the values of this age saw much decline. ... Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947) was the famous editor of novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and others, at the publisher Charles Scribners Sons during the first half of the 20th Century. ... Tender is the Night book cover Tender is the Night is a 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

He died at age 48 in East Hampton, New York, of complications from tuberculosis. East Hampton is a town located in Suffolk County, New York. ... Tuberculosis (commonly abbreviated as TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (Miliary tuberculosis), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...

Trivia

• One of Lardner's sons, Ring Lardner, Jr., won two Academy Awards as a screenwriter and was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten.

• Ring Lardner's grandson, Louis is part-owner of a large chain of McDonald's restaurants in upstate New York.

• Lardner appears as a character in the movie Eight Men Out, played by the movie's director, John Sayles, who bears a physical resemblence to him.

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Selected bibliography

• Bib Ballads (1915)
• You Know Me Al (1916)
• Gullible's Travels (1917)
• Treat 'Em Rough (1918)
• The Big Town (1921)
• How to Write Short Stories (1924)
• Haircut (1925)
• Round Up (1929)

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