Authors and Illustrators Database

Ring W. Lardner

Born: 03/06/1885  Niles, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
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

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Arts (M.A.); Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 1931-1939

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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