Bruccoli, Matthew J. and Richard
Layman. Ring W. Lardner: A Descriptive Bibliography. |
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Pittsburgh series in bibliography.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976. An
indispensable aid in the study and collection of Ring
Lardner. All sections are cross-referenced and indexed
for easy use. |
| Elder, Donald. Ring Lardner.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956. |
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A comprehensive and entertaining account
of the life and work of Lardner; contains many copies of
letters, personal anecdotes, and writing samples; has an
index and a partial list of Lardner's published work. |
| Evans, Elizabeth. Ring Lardner. New York:
Ungar, 1979. |
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Concise guide to Lardner's life and work. |
| Friedrich, Otto. Ring Lardner.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1965. |
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Similar in purpose and content to Evans'
book. |
| Geismar, Maxwell. Ring Lardner
and the Portrait of Folly. New York: Crowell, 1972. |
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A good, concise overview of the life and
works of Lardner for the layman or someone in need of
just the basics; presents Lardner's writing as something
to be enjoyed (by implication though, not always to be
taken seriously). Audience appears to be the average
reader rather than the student. |
| Lardner, Ring. Ring Around Max:
The Correspondence of Ring Lardner and Max Perkins. |
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Ed. Clifford M. Caruthers. Dekalb:
Northern Illinois UP, 1973. Besides the letters, this
includes a chronological listing of first publications of
Ring Lardner's book and magazine pieces and a reprint of
Fitzgerald's New Republic piece, "Ring."
Caruthers does a very good job of explaining references
and providing context so that it is an interesting read
as well as an informative one.
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| ---. Letters From Ring. Ed. Clifford M.
Caruthers. Flint, MI: Waldon Press, 1979. |
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Only published collection of Ring's
correspondence. Only Lardner's side of the correspondence
exists in most cases, because he threw away the responses. |
| Lardner, Ring Jr. The Lardners: My Family
Remembered. New York: Harper and Row, |
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1976. Offers unique perspective on the
life of his father and entertaining accounts of how the
Lardner children were raised. Only flaw is that it
doesn't expand further on the lives of his brothers, all
of whom are fascinating.
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| ---. I'd Hate Myself in the Morning. New York:
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000. |
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Though the focus of the book is Lardner's own
experiences in the movie business and his life as last remaining
survivor of the Hollywood 10, the early chapters go into greater detail
than his first book about the influence of his father and of his brother
Jim.
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| Patrick, Walton R. Ring Lardner.
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1963. |
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A guide to the writing of Lardner;
includes studies of style and content, a chronology of
Lardner's life, and bibliographical information (see
Evans and Freidrich). |
| Robinson, Douglas. Ring Lardner
and the Other. New York: Oxford University Press,
1992. |
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The first extended postmodern criticism
of Lardner; provides an in-depth study of "Who
Dealt?" and explains how Lardner could live one way
(Majoritarian) and write another (Minoritarian); includes
an excellent critical bibliography. |
| Yardley, Jonathan. Ring: A
Biography of Ring Lardner. New York: Random House,
1977. |
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The only thorough Lardner biography other
than Elder's; provides good background information about
the game of baseball as it was played during Ring's
lifetime; benefits from information gleaned from letters, but lacks the
first hand information available at the time of the first biography.
The author seems to go out of his way to stress how insignificant his
subject is. . |
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