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:PenrodPenrodPenrod and SamGrowthThe TurmoilThe Magnificent AmbersonsThe MidlanderNovelsThe Gentleman from IndianaMonsieur BeaucaireThe Two Vanrevels The Beautiful LadyThe Conquest of CanaanThe Guest of QuesnayHis Own PeopleBeasley's Christmas PartyThe FlirtSeventeenRamsey MilhollandAlice AdamsGentle Julia