Donald Elder

Further reading

• "Donald Elder, Former Niles Writer Dies". The Niles Daily Star. 1965-05-12. Retrieved 2026-09-14 – via Newspapers.com. Word has been received here of the death of Donald B. Elder, a famed writer and former Niles resident. Elder, 52, lived in New York City. One of his books was a biography of another Niles writer, Ring Lardner. Elder was born April 16, 1913, in Detroit. He was graduated from Niles High School, where he was class valedictorian. During the past 30 years, he has lived in New York, and was a former associate publisher of Doubleday Publishing Company.
• "Donald Elder Former Niles Writer 52, Dies". South Bend Tribune. 1965-05-12. Retrieved 2026-09-14 – via Newspapers.com. Elder was born in Detroit, April 15, 1913, and spent his early childhood in Niles. He was graduated from the Niles High School where he was valedictorian of his class. For the last 30 years he had lived in New York. He attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from where he was graduated. While at the University he was awarded the Avery Hopgood prize for literature. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
• "Deaths: Elder Rites". The Niles Daily Star. 1965-05-21. Retrieved 2026-09-14 – via Newspapers.com. Funeral rites for Donald B. Elder, a well-known author and former resident of Niles, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Trinity Episcopal Church. The Rev. Vincent J. Anderson, rector, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Ring Elder, a biographer of Ring Lardner, one of Niles' most famous residents, had resided in New York City the past 30 years. He was a former associate publisher of the Doubleday Publishing Company there. Word was received here May 12 of his death.
• "Ring Lardner Biography". Brooklyn Eagle. 1951-08-21. Retrieved 2026-09-14 – via Newspapers.com. Ring Lardner, famous American humorist, will be the subject of a biography being written by Donald Elder and scheduled for publication in 1952 by Doubleday. Mr. Elder, who is chief associate editor of Doubleday, is a native of Niles, Michigan, Lardner's home town, and has been a close friend of the writer's family for many years.
• "Donald D. Elder Wins Promotion in Literary Field". The Niles Daily Star. 1941-05-08. Retrieved 2026-09-14 – via Newspapers.com. Donald D. Elder, valedictorian of the Niles high school class of 1930, has been appointed Latin-American editor of the Doubleday Doran trade department, according to word sent to Niles friends. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Elder, who are now living in the family home north of Niles. Since his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1935 Elder has been a student of Latin-American literature and has spent much time in Mexico and other Latin-American countries. A major part of his work will be devoted to an investigation of the entire field of Hispanic-American literature with a view to American publication.
• "Hopwood Prize Goes to Elder. Niles Student Wins $250 Cash Award at Ann Arbor". South Bend Tribune. 1933-06-04. Retrieved 2026-09-14 – via Newspapers.com. Donald Elder, valedictorian of the 1930 graduating class of Niles High school, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood cash prize for $250 for his entry in the contest conducted at the University of Michigan in various forms of English composition. ... Mr. Elder was a leader in scholastic work in the Niles High School and has received high grades in his work at the university where he is taking a literary course. His entry for the Hopwood prize was a series of sketches of railroad life, material for which was gained during the summers he worked as a timekeeper for section gangs on the Michigan Central railroad. One sketch tells of the death of a section hand in an accident near Niles.
• "Donald B. Elder, Niles Boy, Wins $1,500 Pen Prize". The Niles Daily Star. Associated Press. 1935-06-01. Retrieved 2026-09-14 – via Newspapers.com. The Hopwood literary contest prizes, made possible through a bequest by the late Avery Hopwood, New York playwright, were awarded last night. to 12 University of Michigan students. The prizes total $7,850. The top awards for fiction, valued at $1,500 each, went to Donald B. Elder of Niles. and Hubert S. Skidmore of Ann Arbor.
• Rogers, W. G. (1956-06-19). "Elder Pens Long Due Biography". The Register-Guard. Retrieved 2026-09-14 – via Newspapers.com. Donald Elder, who has written the long due "Ring Lardner" biography, was brought up in Lardner's birthplace, Niles, Michigan, where he won an Avery Hopwood award for writing. He went to Doubleday 10 years ago with a novel; the novel was not published but he stayed on as an editor until, a couple of years back, he quit to live in Orlando, Fla., and do this book.
• Hicks, Granville (1956-07-02). "Donald Elder's Biography Helps Solve Mysteries of Ring Lardner". The New Leader. Vol. 39, no. 27. p. 17. ProQuest 1308958628. Donald Elder's Ring Lardner (Doubleday, $4.75) is a substantial, painstaking job. Mr. Elder has examined even the obscurest of Lardner's writings, has talked with his friends, and has been able to consult and to quote from any of his personal letters. The facts he has amassed he has set down soberly, without resort to fictional devices and with no urge to prove anything whatever. Because he sometimes writes clumsily, quotes a good deal of trivial material, and occasionally slips into banality, the book is not a pleasure to read, but the facts are here.
• Gannett, Lewis (1956-06-14). "Book review: Ring Lardner". New York Herald Tribune. p. 23. ProQuest 1325106795. Donald Elder comes from Niles, Mich., and he knows that Ring Lardner, whether he was living and writing in Chicago or Little Neck, was always a Niles, Mich., boy. Beyond that, he offers the Lardner data, authoritatively and almost too completely, and confesses that he does not know all the answers, a feat rare in biographers, and becoming.
• Grady, R. F. (1956-09-01). "Ring Lardner by Donald Elder". America. Vol. 95, no. 2. pp. 510–511. EBSCOhost 35410489. This is an attractive, if somewhat long-winded biography of one of the most popular and, in his own way, significant authors of the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. ... Like much of the output of his subject, Mr. Elder's biography tends to be repetitious; it is best when Ring Lardner is let speak for himself in generous quotations from letters and his sketches. Furthermore, the bibliography and the index (pp. 379-409) are valuable. Of Mr. Elder's style one could wish he were not so chary of variety in the use of relative pronouns. The style is marred by a prevalence of "that" when "which, "whose," "of whom" "of which" would have been preferable.
• "Ring Lardner". The New Yorker. Vol. 32, no. 47. 1957-01-12. pp. 102–103. EBSCOhost 22467979.
• Flanagan, John T. (March 1957). "Ring Lardner by Donald Elder". American Literature. 29 (1): 104–106. doi:10.2307/2922708. JSTOR 2922708. EBSCOhost 10110628.

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