Who is Ringgold Wilmer Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – 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.

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Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper South Bend Times in 1905. In 1907, he relocated to Chicago, where he got a job with the Inter-Ocean. Within a year, he quit to work for the Chicago Examiner, and then for the Tribune. Two years later, Lardner was in St. Louis, writing the hu...
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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Poems

  • Guess Again
    "I guess I'll help you, daddy."
    And daddy can't say "No;"
    For if he did, 'twould wound you, kid,
    And cause the tears to flow. ...
  • Confession
    A sleuth like Pinkerton or Burns
    Is told that there has been a crime.
    He runs down clues and leads, and learns
    Who did the deed, in course of time. ...
  • Taste
    I can't understand why you pass up the toys
    That Santa considered just right for small boys;
    I can't understand why you turn up your nose
    At dogs, hobby-horses, and treasures like those, ...
  • The Paths Of Rashness
    Up to the sky the birdman flew
    And looped some loops that were bold and new.
    The people marvelled at nerve so great
    And gasped or cheered as he tempted fate, ...
  • Foreword To Bib Ballads
    Dear Parents: - Don't imagine, please,
    It's in a boastful spirit
    I fashion verses such as these;
    That's not the truth or near it. ...
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