By 1924 Lardner was an established author at Scribners, a humorist of the first order. In 1919 he moved his family from Chicago to the East, settling first in Greenwich, Connecticut, and then in Great Neck, New York, and finally in East Hampton, Long Island. The move was not motivated by a desire to escape the Midwest for eastern culture and atmosphere. Lardner moved to the New York environs because as a writer he could make more money there and because New York was the home of Broadway. Here he continued to write throughout his life, and even when he was confined to the hospital during his last illnesses, he was writing a radio column for the
New Yorker, "Over the Waves."
All studies of American humor in the twentieth century find in Ring Lardner one of America's most successful practitioners of humor, a writer who distinguished himself amid the competition of the day, which included such fine writers as S. J. Perelman, Don Marquis, Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, and Dorothy Parker.
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