Round Up~Ring Lardner~1929~Vintage and Rare~Free Shipping

Round Up~Ring Lardner~1929~Vintage and Rare~Free Shipping.

This classic book has shelf wear on the cover. Inscription and tag on inside front cover. No other markings or inscriptions. Browning of pages due to the age of the book. See photos of the book.

Ringgold Wilmer “Ring” Lardner (March 5, 1885[1] – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing.

Lardner was a good friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other authors of the Jazz Age. His books were published by Maxwell Perkins, who also served as Fitzgerald’s editor. To create his first book of short stories Lardner had to get copies from the magazines who bought the stories — he held his own short stories in low regard and did not save copies.

Lardner was in some respects the model for the tragic character Abe North of Fitzgerald’s last completed novel, Tender Is the Night.

Lardner influenced Ernest Hemingway, who sometimes wrote articles for his high school newspaper using the pseudonym Ring Lardner, Jr. The two met during December 1928, thanks to Max Perkins, but did not become friends. Lardner’s gift for dialogue heavily influenced the writer John O’Hara, who said he learned from reading Lardner “that if you wrote down speech as it is spoken truly, you produce true characters, and the opposite is also true: if your characters don’t talk like people they aren’t good characters” and added, “it’s the attribute most lacking in American writers and almost totally lacking in the British.” - from Wikipedia

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