The gentleman from Indiana.( NOVEL ) By: Booth Tarkington (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545548608)

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 - May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. He was named after his maternal uncle Newton Booth, then the governor of California. He was also related to Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth through Woodworth's wife Almyra Booth Woodworth. Tarkington first attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, but completed his secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy, a boarding school on the East Coast. He attended Purdue University for two years, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the university's Morley Eating Club. He later made substantial donations to Purdue for building an all-men's residence hall, which the university named Tarkington Hall in his honor. Purdue awarded him an honorary doctorate

Author: Booth Tarkington
ISBN-10: 1545548609
ISBN-13: 9781545548608
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2017
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.37d