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 Ring Lardner Quotes
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 Ring Lardner (March 6, 1885 - September 27, 1933) was a sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre. Unsourced The whole world is about three drinks behind. A good many young... 
 
| Name: |
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner | | Birth Date: |
March 6, 1885 | | Death Date: |
September 25, 1933 | | Place of Birth: |
Niles, Michigan, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933), American writer, was an important literary humorist and the author of sports fiction. His stories are distinguished by a bitterly sardonic view of humanity. He has been called the "greatest and sincerest pessimist... summary from source:
 Biography of Ring Lardner
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 Ring Lardner was one of the most admired American writers of the 1920s--praised by Virginia Woolf in 1925 as the author of "the best prose that has come our way" from America; compared favorably to Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Anton Chekhov, Bernard... summary from source:
Biography of Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
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Ring Lardner began his writing career as a newspaperman, first covering routine assignments for a local paper in South Bend, Indiana, then moving to Chicago where he was a sports reporter specializing in baseball. In many ways, his work always showed...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Lardner, Ring (1885-1933) Summary
697 words, approx. 2 pagesRing Lardner's cynical humor made him one of the most popular writers of the 1920s. Throughout his career, first as a sports writer and columnist and then as the author of short stories, light verse and plays, Lardner's works received... summary from source:
 Ring Lardner Information
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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...
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 The Independent - London Obituary: Ring Lardner Jnr
11/03/2000: 791 words, approx. 3 pages THE LAST surviving member of the Hollywood Ten, that group of film writers who, in 1947, refused to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) whether or not they were Communists, Ring Lardner Jnr was the wittiest of the group, and, despite years on... summary from source:
The Washington Post Ring Lardner's Rejoinder
01/19/2001: 899 words, approx. 3 pages I'D HATE MYSELF IN THE MORNING By Ring Lardner Jr. Nation Books. 198 pp. $22.95 On the 50th anniversary of the first Hollywood hearings conducted by the infamous House Unamerican Activities Committee, Hollywood itself threw a big celebratory bash. At the Academy... summary from source:
 AP News Today in history - May 14
5/14/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Monday, May 14, the 134th day of 2007. There are 231 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Four hundred years ago, on May 14, 1607, English colonists went ashore in Virginia to begin building a permanent settlement, named Jamestown after England's King... summary from source:
The New York Observer In His 60's, Batman Looks Tired; Film Forum's Pre-Code Parade
6/19/2005: 2,505 words, approx. 8 pagesChristopher Nolan's Batman Begins, from a screenplay by Mr. Nolan and David S. Goyer, based on a story by Mr. Goyer and the Batman characters created by Bob Kane and published by DC Comics, plays out more like an afterthought to the four-movie Batman series...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Walton R. Patrick
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In the following essay, Patrick surveys Lardner's stories from 1925 to 1929, noting his switch in narrative technique from first to third person.
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Critical Essay by Douglas Robinson
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In the following essay, Robinson traces the scholarship on Lardner and analyzes it in terms of "shifting class polarities."
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Critical Essay by Gordon Bordewyk
6,656 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Bordewyk traces four types of communication failures in Lardner's fiction, each of which leads to a sense of alienation among his characters.
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