This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography Round Up The Stories of Ring Lardner is a collection of short stories that include Nora Sun Cured The Facts and many more Ring Lardner was born in Niles Michigan in 1885 He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago but did not complete his first semester In 1907 Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times Six years later he published his first successful book You Know Me Al an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by Jack Keefe a bushleague baseball player to a friend back home A huge hit the book earned the appreciation of Virginia Woolf and others Lardner was a close friend of F Scott Fitzgerald and other writers of the Jazz Age He was published by Maxwell Perkins who also served as Fitzgeralds editor and served as the model for the tragic character Abe North in Fitzgeralds last completed novel Tender Is the Night 1934
