Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
(1885–1933)

American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. Pen names: Ring W. Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner

Works

(partial list)

  • Zanzibar (1908) Play
  • Bib Ballads (1915) PG
  • You Know Me Al (1916)
  • Champion (1916)
  • Gullible's Travels, Etc. (1917) ["Wise Boob" 1] PG
  • My Four Weeks in France (1918) War Reporting
  • Treat 'Em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer (1918) PG
  • The Real Dope (1919) [1] PG
  • Symptoms of Being 35 (1921)
  • The Big Town (1921) ["Wise Boob" 2] [2]
  • How to Write Short Stories (With Samples) (1925)

Individual short works

Works about Lardner

  • Ring Lardner. By Donald Elder (1956.)
  • Ring Lardner. By Walton R. Patrick (1963.)
  • Ring W. Lardner: A Descriptive Bibliography. (1976) By Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman.


  1. Stories originally published in The Saturday Evening Post
  2. Basis of 1948 movie "So This Is New York"

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1933, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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