Lardner, Ring[Gold] [Wilmer]
Lardner, Ring[Gold] [Wilmer]( 1885–1933),born in Michigan, was known as a sports writer and columnist in Chicago and New York before the great success of his short stories. His first collection, You Know Me Al; A Busher's Letters (1916), employs the racy idiom of the baseball diamond and describes the career of a novice on a professional team. Other books of this early period displaying the author's talent for the humorous use of the vernacular in portraying typical Americans include Bib Ballads (1915), a collection of verse; Gullible's Travels (1917), satirical stories; Treat 'Em Rough (1918); and The Big Town (1921), a humorous novel. The publication of How To Write Short Stories (1924), a collection, first attracted critical attention to Lardner as a sardonic humorist exposing follies and vices through his characters' conversational speech. Though they seem to follow traditional methods of American...
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