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Twice he won the Pulitzer Prize in in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams . His play Clarence launched Alfred Lunt on his distinguished career and provided Helen Hayes with an early successful role. His Penrod books continued the American boy-story tradition which started with the works of Mark Twain. Early in this century, through his novel The Turmoil , he warned of sacrificing the environment to industrial growth. Yet, since his death in 1946, Booth Tarkington -- this writer from the Midwest who accomplished so much -- has faded from the memory of the reading public, and many of his works are out of print. But his memory is fresh and vivid in the mind of his grandniece Susanah Mayberry, and her recollections of him leap from the pages of her book. She recalls that as a small child, before she was aware of her uncles fame as a writer, he emerged as the one figure whose outline was clear among the blur of forms that made up her large family. No one who met Booth Tarkington ever forgot him, says his great-niece. So, she introduces the reader to this multifaceted the young man-about-town, the prankster, the writer of humorous letters (who drew caricatures

Author

Susanah Mayberry

Publisher

West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780911198669

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction