Ring Lardner

You Know Me Al

Comic novel told through letters of a boastful baseball pitcher's exploits

About the author

Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner was a master satirist of American vernacular life who used the fictional letter, monologue, and sketch to expose the vanity and mediocrity of ordinary Americans. His influence on Hemingway and Fitzgerald was significant.

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