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 is 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).
A charming tale of youth reminiscent of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” that will not disappoint fans of Tarkington’s wonderful work. Following on from his earlier novels “Penrod” (1914) and “Penrod and Sam” (1916), “Penrod Jashber” continues the story of the eponymous 11-year-old boy living in a small city in the Midwest who has now developed a penchant for solving mysteries. First published in 1929, Tarkington’s novel “Penrod Jashber” is the third installment to “The Penrod Series”. 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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