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Ring Lardner (1885–1933)

Forfatter af You know Me Al: A Busher's Letters

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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was born on March 6, 1885 in Niles, Mich. His unusual first name came from the Civil War Union admiral Cadwallader Ringgold, but he disliked his name and shortened it to Ring. Although he came to journalism somewhat by chance, taking a position that had originally been vis mere offered to his brother, Lardner soon found his niche, writing first about sports, particularly baseball, and later a humor column. Lardner worked as a sportswriter for several papers, including the Chicago American, the Boston American, and The Chicago Tribune. Eventually he began to write short stories, and today he is best known for his stories about baseball, and in particular You Know Me Al, a series of letters from Jack Keefe, a fictional baseball star, to his hometown friend, Al. The letters first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1914, and then were published in book form in 1916. Other short-story collections include Round Up, The Busher Returns, Gullible's Travels, and First and Last. Lardner also wrote one novel, The Big Town, and collaborated with George S. Kaufman on the play June Moon, which opened on Broadway in 1929 and was filmed a year later. Ring Lardner died in East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y. in 1933. Lardner's son, Ring Lardner, Jr., is also a writer whose credits include the screenplay for the movie M*A*S*H. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: Ring W. Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner

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(eng) Ring Lardner, 1885-1933, was the father of Ring Lardner, Jr., 1915-2000. Please do not combine these authors.

Værker af Ring Lardner

You know Me Al: A Busher's Letters (1916) 347 eksemplarer
Haircut and Other Stories (1954) 141 eksemplarer
Selected Stories (1997) 95 eksemplarer
Round Up (1924) 73 eksemplarer
Some Champions (1976) 56 eksemplarer
Gullible's Travels, Etc. (1917) 43 eksemplarer
Lardner on Baseball (2003) 41 eksemplarer
Best of Ring Lardner (1984) 40 eksemplarer
The Ring Lardner Reader (1963) 34 eksemplarer
The Portable Ring Lardner (1777) 32 eksemplarer
The Big Town (1949) 26 eksemplarer
What of it? (1925) 17 eksemplarer
Lardner on War (2003) 14 eksemplarer
The Real Dope (2008) 10 eksemplarer
The Love Nest and Other Stories (1926) 8 eksemplarer
All for love (1985) 6 eksemplarer
Champion (2017) 5 eksemplarer
My Four Weeks in France (1918) 5 eksemplarer
Bib Ballads (1915) 5 eksemplarer
The Golden Honeymoon (2005) 4 eksemplarer
The Young Immigrunts (1920) 4 eksemplarer
Das Liebesnest. Erzählungen. (1971) 4 eksemplarer
A algunos les gustan frías (2001) 4 eksemplarer
Unetus : novelle (2004) 4 eksemplarer
The Love Nest (1926) 3 eksemplarer
I Can't Breathe 3 eksemplarer
First and Last (1834) 2 eksemplarer
Ci sono sorrisi... (2013) 2 eksemplarer
Dix nouvelles (1992) 2 eksemplarer
Campeón (2014) 2 eksemplarer
Zone Or Quiet 2 eksemplarer
Ex Parte (1929) 2 eksemplarer
Own Your Own Home (2007) 2 eksemplarer
The Real Dope (2010) 1 eksemplar
Great Golfers (1970) 1 eksemplar
Urban Cowboy 1 eksemplar
Y'en a qui les aiment froides (2007) 1 eksemplar
Rare The Portable Ring Lardner (1946) 1 eksemplar
BIR DERT KI 1 eksemplar
Guantes de oro 1 eksemplar
Prohibition Blues (1919) — Lyricist — 1 eksemplar
Short Stories 1 eksemplar
ROUND UP Franklin Library (1981) 1 eksemplar
Treat 'Em Rough 1 eksemplar
Harmony 1 eksemplar
Hurry Kane 1 eksemplar
Horseshoes 1 eksemplar
There Are Smiles 1 eksemplar
Anniversary 1 eksemplar
Reunion 1 eksemplar
Travelogue 1 eksemplar
My Roomy 1 eksemplar
A Caddy's Diary 1 eksemplar
Mr. And Mrs. Fix-It 1 eksemplar
The Water Cure (2004) 1 eksemplar
Three Kings And A Pair (2004) 1 eksemplar
Carmen 1 eksemplar
Mr. Frisbie 1 eksemplar
Dinner bridge 1 eksemplar
Who Dealt? 1 eksemplar
Some Like Them Cold 1 eksemplar
Liberty Hall 1 eksemplar
Letters of Ring Lardner (1995) 1 eksemplar
Alibi Ike 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Bidragyder — 1,242 eksemplarer
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Bidragyder — 675 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Bidragyder — 510 eksemplarer
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 452 eksemplarer
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Bidragyder — 430 eksemplarer
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Bidragyder — 335 eksemplarer
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Bidragyder — 291 eksemplarer
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragyder — 291 eksemplarer
24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Bidragyder — 283 eksemplarer
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Bidragyder — 282 eksemplarer
A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941) — Bidragyder — 276 eksemplarer
Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies (2004) 251 eksemplarer
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Bidragyder — 207 eksemplarer
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (1999) — Bidragyder — 191 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Bidragyder — 188 eksemplarer
Twenty Grand Short Stories (1967) — Bidragyder — 157 eksemplarer
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Bidragyder — 137 eksemplarer
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (1954) — Bidragyder — 137 eksemplarer
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Bidragyder — 137 eksemplarer
The Scribner Treasury: 22 Classic Tales (1952) — Bidragyder — 99 eksemplarer
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (1945) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
Baseball's Best Short Stories (1995) — Bidragyder — 79 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 74 eksemplarer
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Bidragyder — 71 eksemplarer
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
Desert Island Decameron (1945) — Bidragyder — 57 eksemplarer
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999) — Bidragyder — 53 eksemplarer
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Bidragyder — 51 eksemplarer
Great Baseball Stories (1979) — Bidragyder — 47 eksemplarer
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Bidragyder — 46 eksemplarer
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
The Random House Book of Sports Stories (1990) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories by 25 Famous Writers (1952) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
An American Omnibus (1933) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 (1939) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
American short stories, 1820 to the present (1952) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
Racconti Gialli (1992) — Forfatter — 20 eksemplarer
Ellery Queen's Mystery Mix (1962) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
Modern American Short Stories (1945) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Forfatter, nogle udgaver11 eksemplarer
Champion [1949 film] (1949) — Original story — 11 eksemplarer
Tales for Males (1945) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The American Twenties: a Literary Panorama (1952) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
A Cavalcade of Collier's (1959) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950 (1975) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
A Treasury of Doctor Stories (1946) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
World's Great Humorous Stories (1944) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Nachtelijke cavalcade : twaalf ongewone vertellingen (1959) — Forfatter — 7 eksemplarer
George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays (1984) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Not for Children (1930) — Introduktion — 6 eksemplarer
Ring Lardner and the Other (1992) 6 eksemplarer
The Story Survey (1953) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
The bear went over the mountain (1964) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Concerning a Woman of Sin and Other Stories of Holllywood (1960) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Modern Short Stories — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
The Bathroom Reader (1946) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Eyes of Boyhood (1953) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
American Humor and Satire (1992) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
The College Short Story Reader (1948) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Modern British and American short stories (1982) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Modern American short stories (1963) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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Almen Viden

Fødselsdato
1885-03-06
Dødsdag
1933-09-25
Køn
male
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Niles, Michigan, USA
Dødssted
East Hampton, New York, USA
Uddannelse
Armour Institute of Technology
Erhverv
sports columnist
short story writer
Relationer
Lardner, Ring, Jr. (son)
Lardner, Kate (granddaughter)
Lardner, George (grandson)
Lardner, John (son)
Lardner Jr., George (great-nephew)
Organisationer
Chicago Tribune
South Bend Times
Kort biografi
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner (March 5, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short-story writer.
Oplysning om flertydighed
Ring Lardner, 1885-1933, was the father of Ring Lardner, Jr., 1915-2000. Please do not combine these authors.

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Not much here. One sided exchange of letters from a nineteen-teens ballplayer.

I was ready to be done with him by the end, I hope he did make the trip overseas. and don't much care if he came back to baby Al.
 
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kcshankd | 12 andre anmeldelser | Dec 18, 2023 |
$40. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition
 
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susangeib | Sep 20, 2023 |
FROM AMAZON: You Know Me, Al is a classic of baseball, the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's great characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious.
Nostalgic in its view of pre-World War I America, a time before the "live" ball, a time filled with names like Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and Eddie Cicotte, this is not a simple period piece. It is about competition, about the ability to reason, and most of all it is about being human.
… (mere)
 
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Gmomaj | 12 andre anmeldelser | Jan 22, 2023 |
Like a Dana Carvey character in a recurring SNL sketch, Jack Keefe quickly wears out his welcome. The ignorance, the gullibility, the illiteracy, and the Berra-like malapropisms are entertaining for about the first chapter.

I had hopes that this would be a sort of What Did You Do During The War, Daddy? tale; instead it is just pointless buffoonery.
 
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mkfs | 1 anden anmeldelse | Aug 13, 2022 |

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