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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. Notable contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald expressed strong admiration for his work, and author John O'Hara credited Lardner with shaping his understanding of dialogue.
Early life
Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan, the son of wealthy parents, Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner. He was the youngest of nine children. Lardner's name came from a cousin of the same name. The cousin had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family. Lardner never liked his given name and abbreviated it to Ring for all personal and professional purposes, although he named one of his sons Ringgold Jr (who also abbreviated it to Ring).
In childhood he wore a brace for his deformed foot until he was eleven. He had a passion for baseball, the stage, and music. He later attended the Armour Institute in Chicago.
Syndicated writing
Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper South Bend Times in 1905. In 1907, he relocated to Chicago, where he got a job with the Inter-Ocean. Within a year, he quit to work for the Chicago Examiner, and then for the Tribune. Two years later, Lardner was in St. Louis, writing the humorous baseball column Pullman Pastimes for Taylor Spink and The Sporting News. Some of this work was the basis for his book You Know Me Al. Within three months, he was an employee of the Boston American.
