Editing Ring Lardner

{{Short description|American writer (1885–1933)}}
{{For|his son, the blacklisted journalist and screenwriter|Ring Lardner Jr.}}
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{{Infobox Writer
| name              = Ring Lardner
| image             = Ring Lardner LC-DIG-npcc-03879.jpg
| caption           = Lardner in 1921
| birth_name        = Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1885|3|6}}
| birth_place       = [[Niles, Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1933|9|25|1885|3|5}}
| death_place       = [[East Hampton (town), New York|East Hampton, New York]], U.S.
| occupation        = Writer, journalist
| spouse            = Ellis Abbot
| children          = James, [[John Lardner (sportswriter)|John]], [[Ring Lardner Jr.|Ring Jr.]], [[David Lardner|David]]
| awards            =
| parents           = Henry Lardner, Lena Phillips Lardner
| relatives         = [[James L. Lardner]] (uncle)
}}

'''Ringgold Wilmer Lardner''' (March 6, 1885<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=ring+lardner+%22march+6%22&start=0 |title=Search results |website=www.google.com}} {{Better source needed|date=August 2022}}</ref> – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and [[short story]] writer best known for his [[satirical]] writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—[[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Virginia Woolf]], and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author [[John O'Hara]] directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.

==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, although he named one of his sons [[Ring Lardner, Jr.|Ringgold Jr]].

In childhood he wore a brace for his deformed foot until he was eleven. He had a passion for [[baseball]], stage, and music.<ref name=RLReader>{{cite book |title=Ring Lardner Reader|author=Lardner, Ring|publisher=Scribners}}p. xiv</ref> He later attended the [[Armour Institute]] in Chicago.<ref name=RLReader/>

==Career==
{{More citations needed|section|date=December 2021}}

=== Syndicated writing ===
Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper ''[[South Bend News-Times|South Bend Times]]'' in 1905. In 1907, he relocated to [[Chicago]], where he got a job with the [[Chicago Inter Ocean|'' Inter-Ocean'']]. Within a year, he quit to work for the ''[[Chicago Examiner]]'', and then for the ''[[Chicago Tribune|Tribune]]''.<ref name="The Lardner Dynasty - Ring">{{cite web|date=Fall 1999|editor-last=Bembrey|editor-first=Sarah|title=Ring Lardner, Sr.|url=http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall99/Bembrey/ring.html|website=The Lardner Dynasty|publisher=Interactive Media Lab, University of Florida|access-date=2008-03-22|archive-date=2018-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421225135/http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall99/Bembrey/ring.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Two years later, Lardner was in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], writing the humorous baseball column ''Pullman Pastimes'' for [[J. G. Taylor Spink|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]]''.

In 1913, Lardner returned to the ''Chicago Tribune'', which became the home newspaper for his syndicated column ''In the Wake of the News'' (started by [[Hugh Keough]], who had died in 1912). The column appeared in more than 100 newspapers, and is still published in the ''Tribune''. Lardner's ''Tribune'' and syndicated writing was not exclusively sports-related: his dispatches from/near the [[World War I|World War One]] front were collected in the book ''My Four Weeks in France'', and his immersive coverage of the [[1920 Democratic National Convention|1920 Democratic Convention]] resulted in Lardner receiving 0.5 votes on the 23rd ballot.

=== Books and stories ===
In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, ''[[You Know Me Al]]'', an [[epistolary novel]] written in the form of letters by "Jack Keefe", a bush-league [[baseball]] player, to a friend back home.  The letters made much use of the fictional author's idiosyncratic [[vernacular]]. It had initially been published as six separate but interrelated [[short story|short stories]] in ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', causing some to classify the book as a [[short story collection|collection of stories]], others as a [[novel]]. Like most of Lardner's stories, ''You Know Me Al'' employs [[satire]].

Journalist [[Andrew Ferguson (journalist)|Andrew Ferguson]] wrote that "Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, ''You Know Me Al'', was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of [[Virginia Woolf]], among other very serious, unfunny people." Ferguson termed the book one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.<ref>{{cite news | url= http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110009333| first= Andrew |last= Ferguson |title=Five Best: Laughter that Lasts|newspaper= [[The Wall Street Journal]]| date= 2 December 2006|page= P8|access-date= 3 December 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930195240/http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110009333| url-status= dead| archive-date= 30 September 2007}}</ref>

Sarah Bembrey has written about a singular event in Lardner's sportswriting experience: "In 1919 something happened that changed his way of reporting about sports and changed his love for baseball. This was the [[Black Sox scandal]] when the [[Chicago White Sox]] sold out the [[World Series]] to the [[Cincinnati Reds]]. Ring was exceptionally close to the White Sox and felt he was betrayed by the team. After the scandal, Ring always wrote about sports as if there were some kink to the outcome."<ref name="The Lardner Dynasty - Ring" /> Lardner's last fictional baseball writing was collected in the book ''Lose with a Smile'' (1933).

Lardner later published such stories as "[[Haircut (short story)|Haircut]]", "Some Like Them Cold", "The Golden Honeymoon", "[[Alibi Ike]]", and "A Day with Conrad Green". He also continued to write follow-up stories to ''You Know Me Al'', with the protagonist of that book, the headstrong, egotistical but gullible Jack Keefe, experiencing various ups and downs in his major league career and in his personal life. Private Keefe's [[World War I]] training camp letters home to his friend Al were collected in the book ''Treat 'Em Rough: Letters From Jack the Kaiser Killer''. The sequel, ''The Real Dope'', followed Keefe overseas to the trenches in France.  He then returned home to pitch for the 1919 Chicago White Sox, but the sequence of stories closed with Keefe being traded to the Philadelphia A's before the 1919 World Series -- Jack Keefe, whatever his flaws, would not be involved in the Black Sox scandal.  Lardner returned to the character when he wrote the continuity for a daily ''You Know Me Al'' comic strip that ran from 1922 to 1925.

=== Theatre and music ===
Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only Broadway three-act successes were the thrice-filmed ''[[Elmer, the Great]]'', co-written with [[George M. Cohan]], and ''[[June Moon]]'', a [[comedy]] authored with [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] veteran [[George S. Kaufman]]. Lardner also wrote skits for the [[Ziegfeld Follies]] and a series of brief nonsense plays that ridiculed the conventions of the theatre, using zany humor and outrageous, impossible stage directions, such as "The curtain is lowered for seven days to denote the lapse of a week."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ringlardnerother0000robi/page/139/mode/1up |title=Ring Lardner and the Other |first=Douglas |last=Robinson |author-link=Douglas Robinson (academic) |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=0195076001 |page=139 |date=1992 |access-date=2024-06-10 |via=Internet Archive |url-access=registration}}</ref>

He was a dedicated composer and lyricist: both his first (''Zanzibar'' (1903)) and last (''June Moon'' (1929)) published stage works included several Lardner tunes. He wrote at least one recorded song for [[Bert Williams]], co-wrote one for [[Nora Bayes]], and provided the lyrics for the song "That Old Quartet" (1913) by [[Nathaniel D. Mann]]. Other collaborators of note included Aubrey Stauffer, [[Jerome Kern]] on ''[[Very Good Eddie]]'' (1915), and [[Vincent Youmans]]—with whom he toiled on the Ziegfeld–[[Marilyn Miller]]–[[Fred Astaire|Asstores]] musical ''Smiles'' (1930).<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_usBBxC_TQC&pg=PA83 |title=Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers |first=Steven |last=Suskin |author-link=Steven Suskin |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780195125993 |page=83 |date=2000 |access-date=2024-06-10 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=May 24, 2023 |title=Smiles (Broadway Production) |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/smiles-11267 |access-date=May 24, 2023 |website=IBDB Internet Broadway Database}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Lardner's books were published by [[Maxwell Perkins]], who also edited Lardner's most important contemporaries, including Fitzgerald who, unlike Hemingway,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway - Maxwell Perkins Correspondence|publisher=Scribner|year=1996|editor-last=Bruccoli|editor-first=Matthew J.}}</ref> also became Lardner's friend. Although Lardner held his own short stories in low regard—he did not save copies and had to get them from the magazines that had first published them to compile a book<ref>{{Cite book |last=Berg|first=A. Scott|title=Max Perkins, Editor of Genius|publisher=New American Library|year=1978|isbn=978-0-399-58483-1|pages=77}}</ref>—Lardner influenced several of his more famous peers:

* In some respects, Lardner was the model for the tragic character Abe North in Fitzgerald's last completed novel, ''[[Tender Is the Night]]''.<ref>Gelfant, Blanche H. (and Lawrence Graver) (2004) ''The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-century American Short Story'', Columbia University Press. (See Ring Lardner, p.322)</ref>
* Lardner also influenced [[Ernest Hemingway]], who sometimes wrote articles for his high school newspaper using the pseudonym Ring Lardner, Jr.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tridget.com/friends.htm |title= Lardner Connections: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Leyner, McMillan, Newman | date= 18 March 2006 | website=tridget.com}}</ref>
* Lardner's gift for dialogue heavily influenced the writer [[John O'Hara]], who said he learned from reading Lardner "that if you wrote down speech as it is spoken truly, you produce true characters, and the opposite is also true: if your characters don't talk like people they aren't good characters" and added, "[I]t's the attribute most lacking in American writers and almost totally lacking in the British."<ref>O'Hara, 1952, foreword to Appointment in Samarra, The Modern Library, 1994.</ref>

==Cultural references==

* [[J. D. Salinger]] referred to Lardner in two of his works,'' [[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' and ''[[Franny and Zooey]]''. In the former work, protagonist Holden Caulfield says: "My favorite author is my brother D.B. and my next favorite is Ring Lardner".
* [[Wayne C. Booth]] mentioned Lardner's famous short story "Haircut" in his essay "Telling and Showing."<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd ed.|last=Booth|first=Wayne C.|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1983|isbn=0-226-06556-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/rhetoricoffictio00wayn/page/3 3–20]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/rhetoricoffictio00wayn/page/3}}</ref>
* In his movie ''[[Eight Men Out]]'' (1988) about the [[Black Sox scandal]], writer-director [[John Sayles]] portrayed Lardner as one of the clear-eyed observers who was not taken in by the conspiracy.  In one scene, Lardner strolls through the White Sox train, singing a [[parody]] of the song "[[I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles]]," changed to "I'm Forever Throwing Ballgames."<ref>[http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Eight-Men-Out ''Eight Men Out'' Movie Review, DVD Release] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310175434/http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Eight-Men-Out# |date=2008-03-10 }}, Filmcritic.com</ref>
* The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame inducted Lardner in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/ring-lardner |title=Ring Lardner |date=2016 |website=Chicago Literary Hall of Fame |language=en |access-date=2017-10-08}}</ref>
* [[Harry Turtledove]] describes his short story "Batboy" as a Ring Lardner pastiche.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/departures00turt/page/146|title=Departures|last=Turtledove, Harry.|date=1993|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0345380118|edition=1st|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/departures00turt/page/146 146]|oclc=28124415|url-access=registration}}</ref>
* [[Neil Simon]] references Ring Lardner in his play ''[[Brighton Beach Memoirs]]''.
* In [[John DeChancie]]'s novel ''Castle for Rent,'' Lord Incarnadine mentions having been friends with Ring Lardner.
* In Sam Halpert's semi-autobiographical novel about a navigator in the [[91st Bombardment Group|91st Bomb Group]], ''A Real Good War'' (1997), the narrator mentions reading Lardner, and specifically refers to "Haircut".

==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>

==Works==
{{Incomplete list|date=June 2017}}

===Plays===

* {{cite book |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring W. |editor1-last=Topping |editor1-first=Scott A. |title=An Annotated Edition of Short Plays |date=April 2001 |publisher=Western Michigan University |location=Kalamazoo, Michigan |url=https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2394&context=dissertations |quote=A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty o f The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree o f Doctor of Philosophy Department of English}}
* ''Zanzibar: A Comic Opera in Two Acts'' (1903) (With Harry Schmidt)
* ''In Allah's Garden''<ref name="google/books=4P03AQAAMAAJ">{{cite book |author1=Library of Congress Copyright Office |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries |date=1913 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4P03AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Ring+Lardner%22+%22In+Allah%27s+Garden%22&pg=PA1001 |language=en}}</ref> (1913)  words by Ring Lardner, music by {{anchor|Aubrey Stauffer}}[[Aubrey Stauffer]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Aubrey Stauffer |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1452131%7C16722/Aubrey-Stauffer |website=[[tcmdb]] |publisher=[[tcm.com]] |access-date=25 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>[[:File:Oh, You September Morn.pdf]]</ref><ref name="extramyers/aubrey-stauffer">{{cite web |title=Aubrey Stauffer |url=https://extramyers.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/aubrey-stauffer/ |website=Myers Genealogy |language=en |date=14 May 2007}}</ref><ref name="levysheetmusic/aubrey-stauffer">{{cite web |title=Aubrey Stauffer |url=https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/people/aubrey-stauffer |website=Levy Music Collection |publisher=[[jhu.edu]] |access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref>
* ''March 6th, 1914. The Home-Coming of [[Charles Comiskey|Chas. A Comiskey]], [[John McGraw|John J. McGraw]], and [[Nixey Callahan|James J. Callahan]]'' (1914) (With Edward G. Heeman)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring W. |last2=Heeman |first2=Edward G. |title=The Home Coming of Chas. Comiskey, John J. McGraw, and James J. Callahan |url=https://www.biblio.com/book/march-6th-1914-home-coming-chas/d/1201865776 |website=biblio |publisher=Edward G. Heeman |access-date=25 January 2023 |location=Chicago |date=March 6, 1914}}</ref>

===Books===

*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Bib Ballads |date=1915 |publisher=P. F. Volland |isbn=978-0-598-74455-5 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25961<!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=7ywPAAAAIAAJ --> |language=en}} (Illustrated by [[Fontaine Fox]])
* ''[[You Know Me Al|You Know Me Al – A Busher’s Letters]]'' (1916)
:*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters |date=1916 |publisher=George H. Doran Company |isbn=978-1-5369-8910-6 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52670<!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=KnE9AQAAMAAJ --> |language=en}}
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Gullible's Travels, Etc. |date=1917 |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |place=Indianapolis |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35162<!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=57q8XhXCF50C --> |language=en}} (Illustrated by [[May Wilson Preston]])
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Treat 'em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer |date=1918 |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |isbn=978-0-598-77984-7 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16929<!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=VH41AQAAIAAJ --> |language=en}}
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring W. --> |title=My Four Weeks in France |date=1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/myfourweeksinfra00larduoft/mode/1up?view=theater |language=en}} (Illustrated by [[Wallace Morgan]])
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=The Real Dope |date=1919 |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7405<!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=2Iw1AQAAIAAJ --> |language=en}} (Illustrated by [[May Wilson Preston]]; M. L. Blumenthal)
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Regular Fellows I Have Met |date=1919 |publisher=B.A. Wilmot |isbn=978-0-598-73898-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HIE2AQAAMAAJ |language=en}}
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Own Your Own Home |date=1919 |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |isbn=978-0-598-76316-7 |language=en |url=https://archive.org/details/ownyourownhome00lardrich/mode/1up?view=theater }} (Illustrated by [[Fontaine Fox]]}
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=The Young Immigrunts |date=1920 |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |isbn=978-0-598-49796-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tytLAAAAIAAJ |language=en}} (Illustrated by [[Gaar Williams]])<ref>{{cite book| author-link = Ring Lardner| date = 1920| title = The Young Immigrunts| url = https://archive.org/details/cu31924027252513| publisher = Bobbs-Merrill Company}} (Internet Archive)</ref><ref>{{cite book| author-link = Ring Lardner| date = 1920| title = The Young Immigrunts| url = https://archive.org/details/youngimmigruntsw00larduoft| publisher = Bobbs-Merrill Company}} (Internet Archive)</ref>
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Symptoms of Being 35 |date=1921 |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QN_EdUAOx_4C |language=en}} (Illustrated by Helen E. Jacoby)
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband |date=1921 |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |isbn=978-1-78000-760-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O00qAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}(basis of 1948 [[Henry Morgan (humorist)|Henry Morgan]] film ''[[So This Is New York (film)|So This Is New York]]'')
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Say It With Oil / Say It With Bricks: A Few Remarks about Wives |date=1923 |publisher=George H. Doran Company |isbn=978-0-598-49737-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyhLAAAAIAAJ |language=en}} (With [[Nina Wilcox Putnam]])
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=How to Write Short Stories – With Samples |date=1924 |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |isbn=978-0-403-01063-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=npRLAAAAIAAJ |language=en}} (Includes ''Champion'' – adapted as the  [[Champion (1949 film)|1949 film]])
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=What of It? |date=1925 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvZaAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}
* ''Charles Scribner's Sons Present Ring W Lardner In The Golden Honeymoon And [[Haircut (short story)|Haircut]]'' (1926)
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=The Love Nest: And Other Stories |date=1926 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wShLAAAAIAAJ |language=en}}
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=The Story of a Wonder Man: Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner |date=1927 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=978-0-598-59109-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLYFAQAAIAAJ |language=en}} (Illustrated by Margaret Freeman)
* ''[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20190233 Round Up: The Stories of Ring W. Lardner]'' (1929)
* ''Stop Me – If You’ve Heard This One'' (1929)
* ''[[June Moon]]'' (1929) (With [[George S. Kaufman]])
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=First and Last |date=1934 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=978-0-598-58940-8 |language=en}} (With [[Gilbert Seldes]] Preface)
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner |date=1957 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=0-684-18363-3 |language=en}} The front cover photograph of Ring Lardner at a typewriter is annotated "The work of a stupendous genius... only good for another century or so." &mdash;[[Jimmy Breslin]]
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner |date=1959 |publisher=Chatto & Windus |language=en}}
* ''Shut Up, He Explained'' (1962) (Edited by [[Henry Morgan (humorist)|Henry Morgan]], [[Babette Rosmond]])
* ''Ring Around Max: The Correspondence of Ring Lardner and [[Max Perkins]]'' (1973) (Edited by Clifford Caruthers)
* ''Letters from Ring'' (1979) (Edited by Clifford Caruthers; Foreword by [[Ring Lardner, Jr.]])
* ''Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al: The Comic Strip Adventures of Jack Keefe'' (1979) (Preface By [[Al Capp]] Illustrated by [[Will B. Johnstone]] [[Tad Dorgan|Dick Dorgan]])
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner |date=1992 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=978-0-684-19374-8 |language=en}} (Edited by [[Matthew Bruccoli]])
* ''Letters of Ring Lardner'' (1995) (Edited by Clifford Caruthers)
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |editor1-last=Hilton |editor1-first=George W. |title=The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919 |date=1995 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-2963-5 |language=en}}
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=Selected Stories |date=1 May 1997 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-14-118018-2 |language=en}}
*{{cite book <!-- |last1=Lardner |first1=Ring --> |title=The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner |date=1 January 2017 |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |isbn=978-0-8032-6973-6 |language=en}} (Edited by Ron Rapoport Foreword James Lardner)
*Rapoport, Ron, ed. (2024).  ''Frank Chance's Diamond: The Baseball Journalism of Ring Lardner.'' Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4930-8099-1.

===Essays and other contributions===
* {{cite magazine |author=Lardner, Ring |date=April 18, 1925 |title=The constant Jay |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=1 |issue=9 |pages=20 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1925/04/18/the-constant-jay <!-- |access-date=25 January 2023 -->}}

==See also==
*[[Donald Elder]], author of ''Ring Lardner, A Biography''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite news |last1=Grift |first1=Josephine Van de |author1-link=Josephine Van de Grift |title=Humor's sober side: Ring Lardner tells about it in interview of series on ''how humorists get that way'' |work=[[Bisbee Daily Review]] |agency=[[Newspaper Enterprise Association]] |date=October 18, 1922 |location=[[Bisbee, Arizona]] |page=4}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.tridget.com/lardnermania/index.htm Lardnermania – An Appreciation of Ring W. Lardner and his Work]
* {{Gbooks-author |Ring Lardner}}
* [http://baseballhall.org/discover/awards/j-g-taylor-spink/ring-lardner Baseball Hall of Fame – Spink Award recipient]
* [https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/228 Ring Lardner Papers] at [[the Newberry Library]]

===Online editions===
* {{Gutenberg author |id=2457| name=Ring Lardner}}
* {{FadedPage|id=Lardner, Ring|name=Ring Lardner|author=yes}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ring Wilmer Lardner}}
* [https://www.shortstoryproject.com/the-golden-honeymoon/ The Golden Honeymoon] by Ring Lardner at The Short Story Project
* {{Librivox author |id=1438}}

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