Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner was born in 1885 in Niles, Michigan, the youngest of nine children in a comfortably off family. He failed in engineering studies and became a sports columnist, chiefly in Chicago, where he followed the city's baseball teams and from 1913 wrote a column carried by more than a hundred newspapers. The 1919 match-fixing scandal, which touched one of the teams he had travelled with, disenchanted him with baseball. A neighbour of Francis Scott Fitzgerald at Great Neck, he served as the model for one of his characters. He died in East Hampton in 1933, aged forty-eight.

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• NovelYou Know Me AlRing Lardner · 1916LiteraturePublic domain