biography
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Lardner, Ring(gold Wilmer)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1933)
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| biography:
| Journalist and writer, born in Niles, Michigan, USA. He began as a sportswriter in 1905, and worked for several papers in Indiana, Chicago, Boston, and St Louis. While a sportswriter and columnist for the Chicago Tribune (1913–19), he wrote a series of baseball short stories for the Saturday Evening Post, collected in a volume titled You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters (1914). These satirical stories, featuring the letters of an egotistical Chicago White Sox pitcher, Jack Keefe, were praised by Virginia Woolf among many others. He wrote two more books featuring Keefe, Treat 'Em Rough (1918) and The Real Dope (1919), and several other collections of stories featuring characters from Broadway, sports, and the workaday world, including Gullible's Travels (1917) and How to Write Short Stories (1924). He also collaborated with George M Cohan and George S Kaufman on plays. One of America's great sardonic humorists, his use of the American vernacular, especially in a story such as ‘Hair Cut’ (1929), has rarely been surpassed. |
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