Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre.
11 Facts About Ring Lardner
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Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan, the son of wealthy parents, Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner.
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Ring Lardner had a passion for baseball, stage, and music.
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Ring Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper South Bend Times in 1905.
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Two years later, Ring Lardner was in St Louis, writing the humorous baseball column Pullman Pastimes for Taylor Spink and the Sporting News.
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In 1913, Ring Lardner returned to the Chicago Tribune, which became the home newspaper for his syndicated column In the Wake of the News.
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In 1916, Ring Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by "Jack Keefe", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.
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Ring Lardner was exceptionally close to the White Sox and felt he was betrayed by the team.
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Ring Lardner was a dedicated composer and lyricist: both his first and last published stage works included several Lardner tunes.
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Ring Lardner wrote at least one recorded song for Bert Williams, co-wrote one for Nora Bayes, and provided the lyrics for the song "That Old Quartet" by Nathaniel D Mann.
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Ring Lardner died on September 25,1933, at the age of 48 in East Hampton, New York, of a heart attack due to complications from tuberculosis.