Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington 18691946 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 Americas 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