Book Description
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.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Sportswriter, storyteller, humorist--Ring Lardner was an American original. 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.

FROM THE CRITICS

The New York Times Book Review

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

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