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Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner (American: 1885-1933) was primarily a sports columnist, but deserves inclusion here for his only novel, ''You Know Me Al'' (1916), and a number of short stories, some (but not all) of which had sports as a theme. ''You Know Me Al'' is highly recommended for those interested in [[Satire]] and [[Black Comedy]], and a [[Beige Prose|straightforward writing style]] reminiscent of, well, sports columns for example. It's probably the first critical analysis of the hero worship and myth-making which is today considered inseparable from the sports world. [[Virginia Woolf]], [[F Scott Fitzgerald]], and [[Ernest Hemingway]] were among Lardner's many admirers, so he must have been doing something right. [[SJ Perelman]] admitted that Lardner should have had him arrested for stealing from his work.▼
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▲'''Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner''' (American: 1885-1933) was primarily a sports columnist, but deserves inclusion here for his only novel, ''You Know Me Al'' (1916), and a number of short stories, some (but not all) of which had sports as a theme. ''You Know Me Al'' is highly recommended for those interested in [[Satire]] and [[Black Comedy]], and a [[Beige Prose|straightforward writing style]] reminiscent of, well, sports columns for example. It's probably the first critical analysis of the hero worship and myth-making which is today considered inseparable from the sports world. [[Virginia Woolf]], [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], and [[Ernest Hemingway]] were among Lardner's many admirers, so he must have been doing something right. [[
Other noteworthy works are ''Gullible's Travels'' (1917; perhaps influenced by Mark Twain, Lardner apparently thought a humor writer has to have a travel book on his resume); ''Treat 'Em Rough'' (1918), in which Jack Keefe, whose letters home to "Al" made up ''You Know Me Al'', writes home from the European Front during WWI; and ''June Moon'' (1929), a comedy play about songwriters written with George S. Kaufman.
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