Editing Ring Lardner (section)

==Personal life==
Lardner married Ellis Abbott of [[Goshen, Indiana]], in 1911. They had four sons who each became writers. [[John Lardner (sportswriter)|John Lardner]], born in 1912, was a newspaperman, sports columnist, and magazine writer. Ring's second born, James Lardner, worked as a newspaperman before he was killed in the [[Spanish Civil War]] fighting with the [[International Brigades]]. In 1939, James was remembered with the book ''Somebody Had to Do Something. A Memorial to James Phillips Lardner'', a book that printed 500-copies. It was financed by the James Lardner Memorial Fund and featured contributions by [[Ernest Hemingway]], Ring Lardner, Jr., [[Jay Allen]], Don Jesus Hernandez, [[El Campesino]], [[Dolores Ibarruri]], [[Vincent Sheean]] and drawings by [[Castelao]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=The James Lardner memorial fund |title=Somebody had to do something: a memorial to James Phillips Lardner |url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/506420 |website=searchworks.stanford.edu |access-date=25 January 2023 |date=1939}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, jr., Jay Allen, Don Jesus Hernandez, El Campesino, Dolores Ibarruri, Vincent Sheean, and drawings by Castelao |title=Somebody had to do something; a memorial to James Phillips Lardner. |url=https://sidbrint.ub.edu/ca/content/somebody-had-do-something-memorial-james-phillips-lardner-ernest-hemingway-ring-lardner-jr |website=SIDBRINT |publisher=[[ub.edu]] |access-date=25 January 2023 |location=Los Angeles |quote=The James Lardner memorial fund}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Ring Lardner (Jr.), Jay Allen, Jesús Hernández, Valentín R. González, Plantin Press, Vincent Sheean, Dolores Ibárruri Castelao |title=Somebody Had to Do Something: A Memorial to James Phillips Lardner |date=1939 |publisher=James Lardner Memorial Fund |location=Los Angeles |pages=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KAmGQAACAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hemingway, Ernest, et al. Somebody Had to Do Something A Memorial to James Phillips Lardner. Los Angeles The James Lardner Memorial Fund, 1939. |url=https://www.bonhams.com/auction/27971/lot/144/hemingway-ernest-et-al-somebody-had-to-do-something-a-memorial-to-james-phillips-lardner-los-angeles-the-james-lardner-memorial-fund-1939/ |website=Bonhams |access-date=25 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hemingway, Ernest and others. Somebody Had to Do Something. A Memorial to James Phillips Lardner. Los Angeles: The James Lardner Memorial Fund, 1939. Illustrated with reproductions of drawings by Castelao. 8vo, original printed light brown wrappers; very minor discoloration on endpapers. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed by the Plantin Press. Hanneman B32. |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-2425592 |website=[[christies.com]] |access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref> Ring Lardner's third son, [[Ring Lardner Jr.]], was an Academy Award-winning [[screenwriter]] who was blacklisted after the Second World War as one of the [[Hollywood Ten]], screenwriters who were incarcerated for [[contempt of Congress]] after refusing to answer questions posed by the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC).<ref>{{cite web |title=Ring Lardner Jr., blacklisted Oscar winner, dies at age 85|first=Katherine |last=Roth|publisher= Chicago Sun-Times |date=February 11, 2000 |work=The Literature Network|url= http://www.online-literature.com/article/ring-lardner/19084/}}</ref>  His book, ''The Lardners, My Family Remembered'' ({{ISBN|0-06-012517-9}}), is a source of information on his father. The youngest, [[David Lardner]], worked for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' as a general [[reporter]] and [[war correspondent]] before he was killed by a landmine near [[Aachen]], Germany on October 19, 1944, less than one month after his arrival in Europe.

Lardner died on September 25, 1933, at the age of 48 in [[East Hampton (town), New York|East Hampton, New York]], of a [[heart attack]] due to complications from [[tuberculosis]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ring Lardner Dies; Noted as Writer |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0306.html}}</ref>

Lardner's grand-nephew is George Lardner Jr., a journalist at ''The Washington Post'' from 1963 and a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner.<ref>{{cite web |work=General Information: History of The Post|title=For Feature Writing, by George Lardner Jr. for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system|url= http://www.washpost.com/gen_info/history/prizes.shtml}}</ref>