inducted Lardner in 2016. Harry Turtledove describes his short story "Batboy" as a Ring Lardner pastiche. Neil Simon references Ring Lardner in his play Brighton Beach Memoirs. In John DeChancie's novel Castle for Rent, Lord Incarnadine mentions having been friends with Ring Lardner. Personal life Lardner married Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana, in 1911. They had four sons, John, James, Ring Jr., and David, all of whom became professional writers. Lardner died on September 25, 1933, at the age of 48 in East Hampton, New York, of a heart attack due to complications from tuberculosis. Sons John Lardner was a newspaperman, sports columnist, and magazine writer. James Lardner, also a newspaperman, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting with the International Brigades. Somebody Had to Do Something. A Memorial to James Phillips Lardner – A 500-copy book with contributions by Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Jr., Jay Allen, Don Jesus Hernandez, El Campesino, Dolores Ibarruri, Vincent Sheean and drawings by Castelao was published in 1939 by the James Lardner Memorial Fund. Ring Lardner Jr. was a screenwriter who was blacklisted after the Second World War as one of the Hollywood Ten, screenwriters who were incarcerated for contempt of Congress after refusing to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays—one before his imprisonment and blacklisting (for Woman of the Year in 1942) and one after (for M*A*S*H in 1970). His book, The Lardners, My Family Remembered (), is a source of information on his father. David Lardner worked for The New Yorker as a general reporter and war correspondent before he was killed by a landmine near Aachen, Germany on October 19, 1944, less than one month after his arrival in Europe. Great-nephew George Lardner, Jr., a journalist at The Washington Post since 1963, was a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner and is Ring Lardner's great-nephew. Works Plays Zanzibar: A Comic Opera in Two Acts (1903) (With Harry Schmidt) In Allah's Garden (1913) words by Ring Lardner, music by Aubrey Stauffer March 6th, 1914. The Home-Coming of Chas. A Comiskey, John J. McGraw, and James J. Callahan (1914) (With Edward G. Heeman) Books (Illustrated by Fontaine Fox) You Know Me Al – A Busher’s Letters (1916) (Illustrated by May Wilson Preston) (Illustrated by Wallace Morgan) (Illustrated by May Wilson Preston; M. L. Blumenthal) (Illustrated by Fontaine Fox) (Illustrated by Gaar Williams)