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- Birth nameRinggold Wilmer Lardner
- Ring Lardner was born on March 6, 1885 in Niles, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The New Klondike (1926), The Cowboy Quarterback (1939) and Champion (1949). He was married to Ellis Abbott. He died on September 26, 1933 in Easthampton, Long Island, New York, USA.
- SpouseEllis Abbott(June 28, 1911 - September 27, 1933) (his death, 4 children)
- Straw boater hat
- Father of Ring Lardner Jr., David Lardner, James Lardner and John Lardner.
- Died of a heart attack while playing bridge with his wife and another couple.
- Humorist, playwright, short story writer and sports columnist. He was a former journalist and one of the alumni of the Algonquin Round Table.
- Famous for his Saturday Evening Post series "You Know Me Al".
- First recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award (presented to a writer for meritorious contributions to baseball writing) in 1963.
- [about Georges Carpentier] He registers the most frightful agony in the ring. The only thing I have seen to match this phase of his art was John Barrymore's reaction to amputation as Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1930).
- [parodying one of Cole Porter's most popular songs] Night and day, under the fleece of me, there's an oh, such a flaming furneth burneth the grease of me.
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