Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner

Jonathan Yardley

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Sportswriter, storyteller, humorist-Ring Lardner was an American original, and in this affectionate, entertaining, and authoritative biography, Pulitzer Prize winning critic Jonathan Yardley gives us a new look at Lardner's all too short life and career.

Book Details

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publish Date: Mar 27th, 2001
Pages: 448
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.93in - 5.91in - 0.94in - 1.25lb
EAN: 9780742511606
Categories: • Sports• Baseball - General• Editors, Journalists, Publishers

About the Author

Jonathan Yardley is the book critic and a columnist for the Washington Post. His columns and reviews are distributed to newspapers throughout the country. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Praise for this book

"To this awesomely detailed biography of Ring Lardner, Yardley brings a first-rate literary critic's perceptions; an experienced reporter's skills; a deep interest in that earlier, innocent era of baseball that spawned Lardner as one of the greatest ever to write about that sport; and an obvious and abiding affection for his complex, often puzzling subject."

"A satisfying portrait of the sad, self-mocking man who wrote some of the funniest prose in the American language."

Jonathan Yardley's compelling biography "Ring" is a fascinating account of how Lardner rose from his small-town roots to become one of the most famous storytellers in American literature, but one whose life was haunted by his bouts with alcoholism and depression.