David Ellis Lardner (March 11, 1919 – October 19, 1944) was an editor, a movie critic, and later a war correspondent for The New Yorker magazine.
He was killed when a land mine exploded under the jeep he was riding in while covering the European Theatre of World War II.
[citation needed] David Lardner became an anonymous reporter and interviewer for "The Talk of the Town" column in The New Yorker in 1939 at the age of 20, as well as a movie reviewer.
The "Notes on Sports" column continued intermittently for more than two years but was discontinued permanently when David left to cover World War II in London.
[2] Lardner and Russell Hill, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, were riding in a jeep from the combat-devastated city of Aachen to a press camp on October 19, 1944.