# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-lardner
# Generated: 2026-09-03T14:16:18.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-lardner"
name: "David Lardner"
slug: "david-lardner"
description: "David Ellis Lardner was an American editor, a movie critic, and later a war correspondent for The New Yorker magazine. He was the fourth son of humorist Ring Lardner. He was killed when a land mine exploded under the jeep he was riding in while covering the European Theatre of World War II. He had been in Europe for four months."
tagline: "American journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1919-03-11"
deathDate: "1944-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.542441333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lardner"
    title: "David Lardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61685007"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations