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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis. He first attended Purdue University but graduated from Princeton University in 1893. While at Princeton he was the editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine and formed the Princeton Triangle Club. He was also voted the most popular man in h...

In Penrod and Sam, the imaginative adventures of Tarkington's 10-year-oldPenrod Schofield continue. Penrod's sidekick is Samuel Williams, and together theyimprovise, causing general mischief and disorder wherever they go. In picaresquefashion, a fencing battle takes them all through the neighborhood, they narrowlyescape serious injury while making boastful demonstrations with a loaded gun, theyindulge in dubious "'nishiation" practices for the...