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...

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...

Ring Lardner 's place in literature as one of America's most important and influential short-story writers and humorists is secure. He was also a successful playwright, although his ambition was to be a songwriter. Lardner's original fame, however,...

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...

Rats drove Ring Lardner into journalism. As he told the story, he was working as a meter reader for a gas company in his hometown of Niles, Michigan, but too often he found "a rat reading the meter ahead of me." At one point, the editor of the South...

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...