The Classic Collection of Booth Tarkington. Pulitzer Prize 1919, 1922

Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. Contents: Penrod Penrod Penrod and Sam Growth The Turmoil The Magnificent Ambersons The Midlander Novels The Gentleman from Indiana Monsieur Beaucaire The Two Vanrevels The Beautiful Lady The Conquest of Canaan The Guest of Quesnay His Own People Beasley's Christmas Party The Flirt Seventeen Ramsey Milholland Alice Adams Gentle Julia