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'''Ring Lardner''' (1885-1933) was an American author. His works include ''You Know Me, Al: A Busher's Letters'' (1916), ''How to Write Short Stories'' (1924), and ''The Love Nest and Other Stories'' (1926).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
'''Ring Lardner''' (1885-1933) was an American author. His works include ''You Know Me, Al: A Busher's Letters'' (1916), ''How to Write Short Stories'' (1924), and ''The Love Nest and Other Stories'' (1926).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
==Life and Works==
Lardner was born on March 6, 1885.<ref>http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/ring.lardner.asp</ref> He married in 1911, had four sons, and worked as a columnist.<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/ringgold-wilmer-lardner</ref> He was very accomplished as a columnist, compared to [[Mark Twain]], admired by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], and influential to [[Ernest Hemingway]], but never wrote anything but columns and short stories and instead established the American sports column.<ref>http://www.npr.org/2016/12/31/507595363/lost-journalism-revisits-the-golden-age-of-ring-lardner</ref> He wrote many short stories, including the letters of a baseball player collected in ''You Know Me, Al: A Busher's Letters''.<ref>http://www.online-literature.com/ring-lardner/</ref> He moved to New York to write more short stories, but was fighting tuberculosis, and September 25, 1933.<ref>"Lardner, Ring." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref> His son, Ring Jr., became successful as a screenwriter, but was blacklisted.
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