The Gentleman from Indiana
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 - May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. 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. Although he is nearly forgotten today (2020), in the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's 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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-64799-878-3
- EAN: 9781647998783
- Produktnummer: 34558535
- Verlag: Bibliotech Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 360 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 360
Über den Autor
Jeremy Beer, a native of Indiana, is president of the American Ideas Institute. He is the author of The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity, and coeditor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia. He co-founded the influential localist web journal Front Porch Republic in 2009. He and his wife, Kara, live in Phoenix, Arizona.
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