The Oscarwinning screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. will always be known for one of two things: that he was the son of one of the greatest humorists American literature has produced, and he was one of the Hollywood 10, the ten filmmakers who refused to cooperate with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee HUAC investigating subversion in Hollywood and were fined and jailed for the defiance.The son of newspaper sports columnist and bestselling writer Ring Lardner, the future double Oscar winner was born on August 19, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. Ring, Sr. who was born Ringgold Wilmer Lardner became famous for his Saturday Evening Post series You Know Me Al, fictional letters being sent from one baseball player to another. Mawell Perkins, editorextraordinaire at the publishing house Charles Scribners & Son, collected Lardbers columns and stories into publishable form Ernest Hemingway, another Scribers writer, was a great fan and they were a great success. Such was Lardners renown, that 30 years after his death while his son and namesake was still officially blacklisted, he was the first sportswriter inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, for meritorious contributions to baseball writing, in 1963.On his part, Ring, Jr. became a reporter for the New York Daily Mirror after dropping out of Princeton. He moved West and became a publicist for producer David O. Selznick, where he met his future wife, who also worked for the producer. He also worked as a script doctor for Selznik, then went on to become a screenwriter, often working in collaboration.

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