Ring Lardner biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Ring Lardner

Author Name:

Ring Lardner

Born As:

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner

Other Names:

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner

Born:

6 Mar 1885

Died:

25 Sep 1933




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Humorist and short story writer                          
Selected Works:

Bib Ballads - 1915
You Know Me Al - 1916
Gullible's Travels - 1917
Treat 'Em Rough - 1918
The Big Town - 1921
How to Write Short Stories - 1924
Haircut - 1925
Round Up - 1929                          
Parents Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner, the ninth of nine children.
Wife Ellis Abbott, two children, Ring Lardner, Jr., and James.
Won two Academy Awards as a screenwriter and was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten. Their son, James, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting with the International Brigades.