The same year he was engaged as a writer of photo-plays by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. In 1920 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1918 he received the degree of Litt.D. He was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives for the term 1902-3. At first he intended to follow a business career, but after a few years devoted his time to writing. After studying at Phillips Academy, Exeter, Mass., he entered Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., but two years later transferred to Princeton, where he graduated in 1893. He was born in Indianapolis, Ind., July 29 1869. Newton Booth Tarkington was an American writer. Classics are proudly republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1922). Other notable works by this author include: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1900), “The Turmoil” (1915), and “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1918). It has also been adapted for the stage and screen numerous times, most famously in George Stevens’ 1935 rendition. A charming tale of youth reminiscent of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, “Penrod” created the characters and set the foundation for two other novels: “Penrod and Sam” (1916) and “Penrod Jashber” (1929). In his 1914 work “Penrod”, Tarkington presents a series of sketches that depict the adventures of an eleven-year-old boy called Penrod Schofield living in the American Midwest shortly before World War I. Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana’s Golden Age of literature. Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.

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