How to Write Short Stories - With Samples

Lardner Jr, Ring

ISBN 10: 1473303362 / ISBN 13: 9781473303362

Published by Watson Press, 2013

About this Item

A couple pages loose - poorly made/bound book. Almost looks unread, but a couple loose pages - still included. Clean and unmarked. Light wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Write Short Stories - With Samples
• Publisher: Watson Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473303362
• ISBN 13: 9781473303362
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 32 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'How to Write Short Stories' is a non-fiction, educational work on the art of creative writing. 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 bush-league 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 Fitzgerald's editor, and served as the model for the tragic character Abe North in Fitzgerald's last completed novel, 'Tender Is the Night' (1934).

From the Publisher

Ring Lardner (1885-1933) was a well-known humorist and sports writer living in Chicago. In 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald arranged for How to Write Short Stories to be published and more attention was then paid to Lardner’s work.