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Ring Lardner

1885 - 1933

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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ring Lardner has received more than 427,717 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ring Lardner is the 4,906th most popular writer (down from 4,729th in 2019), the 7,210th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,351st in 2019) and the 584th most popular American Writer.

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  • 430k

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  • 45.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ring Lardner ranks 4,906 out of 5,755. Before him are Ted Chiang, Henriette Roland Holst, Edward Rutherfurd, François Weyergans, Frano Selak, and Lester del Rey. After him are Eoin Colfer, Joel Chandler Harris, Francis de Miomandre, Mark Strand, Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, and Erik Johan Stagnelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Ring Lardner ranks 186. Before him are Boris Vilkitsky, Carl Silfverstrand, Harry Benjamin, Fernand de Montigny, Georges Passerieu, and Tommaso Costantino. After him are Otto Kruger, Alicia Moreau de Justo, Henri Béraud, Aquilino Ribeiro, Marcello Bertinetti, and Károly Dietz. Among people deceased in 1933, Ring Lardner ranks 114. Before him are Elizabeth Thompson, Baltasar Brum, Sakai Toshihiko, Johannes Schmidt, Anna Brigadere, and Jack Pickford. After him are Stasys Girėnas, Archibald Sayce, Emil Magnusson, Karl Jatho, Henry van Dyke Jr., and Ismael Montes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ring Lardner ranks 7,210 out of 18,182. Before him are Michael Tilson Thomas (1944), Lester del Rey (1915), Francis Parker Yockey (1917), Bill Smitrovich (1947), David Koepp (1963), and George Inness (1825). After him are George Stibitz (1904), Dolores Hart (1938), Rick Baker (1950), William Wakefield Baum (1926), MC Ren (1969), and Joel Chandler Harris (1848).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ring Lardner ranks 584. Before him are Rita Mae Brown (1944), John Green (1977), Gardner Fox (1911), Tom Peters (1942), Ted Chiang (1967), and Lester del Rey (1915). After him are Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Madeleine L'Engle (1918), Pauline Kael (1919), Conrad Aiken (1889), Daniel Quinn (1935), and James C. Collins (1958).

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