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Wilmer Ringold Lardner

Born: 03/06/1885   Niles
Died: 09/25/1933
Parents: Henry Lardner, Lena Lardner
Spouse: Ellis Abbott
Children: John Abbott, James Phillips, Ringgold Wilmer, Jr., David Ellis

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Ring Around Max: the Correspondence of Ring Lardner & Max Perkins
- Several collections of his stories, letters, have been published 		Non Fiction Adult Northern Illinois University Press 1973
Modern Essays
- Editor, essayist 		Non Fiction Scott, Foresman 1953
Lose with a Smile Fiction Adult New York : Scribners 1933
June Moon: a Comedy in a Prologue and Three Acts
- With G.S. Kaufman. Comedy play first appeared on Broadway. 		Drama Adult New York : Scribners 1930
Round Up, the Stories of Ring W. Lardner Fiction Adult New York : Scribners 1929
The Story of a Wonder Man Fiction Adult New York : Scribners 1927
Haircut and Other Stories Fiction Adult New York : Scribners 1926
The Love Nest and Other Stories Fiction Adult New York : Scribners 1926
Gullible's Travels, etc. Non Fiction Scribners 1925
What of It? Non Fiction Adult New York : Scribners 1925
How to Write Short Stories Non Fiction Adult New York : Scribners 1924
Symptoms of Being 35 Fiction Adult Indianapolis, IN : Bobbs-Merrill 1921
The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband Fiction Adult Indianapolis, IN : Bobbs-Merrill 1921
The Young Immigrunts Fiction Adult Indianapolis, IN : Bobbs-Merrill 1920
Own Your Own Home Fiction Adult Indianapolis, IN : Bobbs-Merrill 1919
The Real Dope Fiction Adult Indianapolis, IN : Bobbs-Merrill 1919
My Four Weeks in France Fiction Adult Indianapolis, IN : Bobbs-Merrill 1918
Treat 'Em Rough : Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer Fiction Adult Indianapolis, IN : Bobbs-Merrill 1918
Gullible's Travels Fiction Adult New York : Charles Scribner's Sons 1917
You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters
- An epistolary novel written in the form of letters by 'Jack Keefe', a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. 		Fiction Adult New York : Doran 1916
Bib Ballads
- Ring Lardner is a typical parent when his first child is born, full of wonder and the rest of the usual emotions as he watches his little son grow. He wrote a series of 29 short poems on various facets of parenthood. 		Poetry Adult Chicago, IL : P.F. Volland 1915
- Articles appeared in Saturday Evening Post Non Fiction Adult
- Radio plays were aired using his work Non Fiction
- Wrote song lyrics, plays, comic strip Non Fiction

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Ink Trails: Michigan's Famous and Forgotten Authors by Dave and Jack Dempsey 2012
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed. 1980
Michigan Authors, 1st ed. 1960
American Authors and Books
American Writers
Contemporary American Authors
Contemporary American Literature
Reader's Encyclopedia
Reader's Adviser
Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
Twentieth Century Authors
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
Twentieth Century Writing
Who Was Who among North American Authors
Who's Who in Twentieth Century Literature

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Armour Institute of Technology Chicago , IL 1901 -1902

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
- Hosted radio column 1932 -1933
Writer Bell Syndicate 1919
Columinist Chicago Tribune 1913 -1919
Editor Sporting News St. Louis 1910 -1911
Sportswriter Boston American, Chicago Examiner 1907 -1911
Sports reporter Various Chicago newspapers 1907 -1910
Reporter South Bend Times South Bend 1905 -1907

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