Ring: A biography of Ring Lardner - Hardcover

Yardley, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394498119 ISBN 13: 9780394498119

Publisher: Random House, 1977

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Review:

"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." (Chicago Daily News)

"A satisfying portrait of the sad, self-mocking man who wrote some of the funniest prose in the American language." (The New York Times)

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. (The San Francisco Chronicle)

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0394498119
• ISBN 13: 9780394498119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 415