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Picture of Ring Lardner, author of June Moon, You Know Me Al, and Gullible's Travels; playwright / dramatist and essayist; twentieth century American Literature and drama


 
September 25, 1933
Ring Lardner   (1885 - 1933)
 
Talking Ring Lardner
 
by Steve King

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On this day in 1933 Ring Lardner died at the age of forty-eight, from a heart attack, tuberculosis and the cumulative effects of alcoholism. Although he kept producing occasional pieces and columns, Lardner's last years were clouded by a general decline in health, popularity, income and output. June Moon, his Broadway collaboration with George S. Kaufman, was a hit near the end, but one which apparently cost as much as it contributed: Lardner wrote friend and former neighbor F. Scott Fitzgerald that "when the New York opening was over, I went on a bat [bender] that lasted nearly three months and haven't been able to work since ...   FULL STORY »
 
 
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