Ring Lardner biography
Ring Lardner, authentic identify Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, (born March 6, 1885, Niles, Mich., U.S.—died Sept. 25, 1933, East Hampton, N.Y.), American author, probably the most gifted, in addition to probably the most bitter, satirists within the United States and a positive storyteller with a real ear for the vernacular.
Lardner got here from a well-to-do household, though his father misplaced most of his fortune throughout Lardner’s final 12 months in highschool. He attended Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago for one time period after which labored at a collection of jobs earlier than starting his writing profession in 1905 as a reporter for the South Bend Times in Indiana. He went on to newspapers in Chicago, the place he established a status as a sportswriter specializing in baseball tales. From 1913 to 1919 he wrote a every day column, “In the Wake of the News,” for the Chicago Tribune and from 1919 to 1927 a humorous weekly column for the Bell Syndicate. Meanwhile, in 1914, he had begun publishing fiction and had gained success with tales that includes the character Jack Keefe, a comic book baseball participant, a few of which had been collected in You Know Me Al (1916).
Lardner moved to New York in 1919, and the scope of his tales unfold past the baseball diamond. He first attracted important curiosity together with his assortment How to Write Short Stories (1924). Some of Lardner’s finest tales—“My Roomy,” “Champion,” “The Golden Honeymoon,” and “Some Like Them Cold”—appeared within the 1924 assortment. Equally good was his subsequent: The Love Nest and Other Stories (1926), with its notable title story (dramatized by Robert E. Sherwood in 1927), “A Day with Conrad Green,” and “Haircut.” Selected Stories was revealed in 1997.
Lardner contracted tuberculosis and was out and in of hospitals throughout his final seven years, turning his hand to all method of writing to assist his household. He collaborated on two performs that had Broadway runs: Elmer the Great (1928) with George M. Cohan and June Moon (1929) with George S. Kaufman. His spoof autobiography, The Story of a Wonder Man, appeared in 1927.
Lardner’s son Ring Lardner, Jr. (1915–2000), was a satiric screenwriter who gained Oscars for Woman of the Year (1942) and M*A*S*H (1970). A member of the Hollywood Ten, he was jailed (1950–51) and blacklisted due to allegations that he was a communist.