Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner (1885–1933) was an American sports columnist and short-story writer, born in Niles, Michigan, and died in New York in 1933. He is known for his satirical and humorous style. His representative work, You Know Me Al (1916), created the character of the baseball player Jack Keefe, and his short stories such as "Haircut" and "The Champion" are also widely praised. His works often draw on sports and everyday life, using colloquial narration and an ironic tone to reveal his characters' self-deception and naivety. Contemporaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf held his work in high regard. The library holds four of his works, including Gullible's Travels, Etc., The Real Dope, Bib Ballads, and Treat 'em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer; classification information is currently unavailable.