Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner ( March 6, 1885 in Niles, Michigan, † September 27, 1933 in New York) was an American sportscaster and writer.
As a reporter, he used the pseudonym James Clarkson temporarily.
Life
1885-1915
Ring Lardner was the youngest child of Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner. Until 1897, he was privately tutored in his parents' house. Already at this time he began to be interested in baseball, music and theater. From 1897 to 1901 he attended the Niles High School. In 1901 he went to Chicago, where he worked as an office assistant for a short time. Then he had a job at the Michigan Central Railroad in his hometown. In 1902 he enrolled at the Armour Institute in Chicago in specialist engineering. As he fell through the first exam, he had to stop again this ( unpopular ) studies soon. Back in Niles, he worked at the Niles Gas Company.
From 1905 Lardner was a sports reporter for the South Bend Times, 1907 for the Chicago Inter -Ocean and the Chicago Examiner, where he wrote mostly about baseball. From 1908 to 1910 he was baseball reporter for the Chicago Tribune, 1910-1911 editor of the St. Louis Sporting News. He also wrote for other newspapers.
In 1911 he married Ellis Abbott and went back to Chicago. His first son John Abbott was born in 1912. In 1913, he again worked for the Chicago Tribune, in which he now also published literary texts sports, including stories and poems. From 1914 he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, which printed many of his baseball stories in the following years. In 1914, his second son, James Phillips, born, 1915, the third son, Ringgold Wilmer Jr.
1916-1933
1916 appeared Lardner's first collection of short stories entitled You Know Me All. In 1917 he went as a correspondent for Collier's Weekly for a short time to France. In 1919 he left the Tribune, moved to Greenwich (Connecticut) with his family; in the same year was his fourth son, David, was born. 1924 made him F. Scott Fitzgerald, with whom he was friends, plus a further collection of his short stories How To Write Short Stories (With Samples ) surrendered. With this collection, he has had great success. In the next few years, several collections of his stories appeared in rapid succession. The mid- 1920s began Lardner to write for the theater, but had so little success.
In 1929, he co-authored with George S. Kaufman piece of the Moon June, which was his only success in the theater. Lardner began in 1933 for the New Yorker columns to write. In September 1933, he died of a heart attack after he had in previous years been repeatedly severely ill and weakened by his alcoholism.
His son, the screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., were awarded two Oscars.
Works
- Bib Ballads, 1915
- You Know Me All, 1916
- Gullible 's Travels, 1917
- My Four Weeks in France, 1918
- The Real Dope, 1919
- Own Your Own Home, 1919
- The Young Immigrunts, 1920
- Symptoms of Being, 1921
- The Big Town, 1921
- Say it with Oil, 1923
- How to Write Short Stories (With Samples ), 1924
- What of It? , 1925
- The Love Nest and Other Stories, 1926
- The Story of a Wonder Man, 1927
- Round Up 1929
- 17 June, Moon, 1930
- Lose With a Smile, 1933