You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner Chicago Cubs Krakauer received an Academy Award

Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment

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You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner Chicago Cubs Krakauer received an Academy AwardIn the early decades of the twentieth century, newspaperman and humorist Ring Lardner (18851933) made America laugh with his hilarious depictions of odd characters in the sporting world, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood. His first great success was You Know Me Al, a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slyly revealing the letter writer as a crude, conceited, semiliterate, self deceiving boob. The letters, created while