On July 29, 1869, Booth Tarkington, American novelist and playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, was born.
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and playwright. He wrote more than 50 novels and 25 plays (11) in his lifetime
Done in cooperation with others), the style is mostly satire and humor. Tarkington was one of the most popular novelists in the United States in the early 20th century, with his novels The Great Anderson Family (1918) and Alice. Adams (1921) won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel.
Booth Tarkington's "Penrod" vividly depicts the life of a naughty little boy and demonstrates the author's keen insight into the details of life. William in "Seventeen Years Old" can be regarded as an older Penrod. There is a summary of "seventeen years old" in the book: "Because at the age of seventeen or eighteen years old, adolescent development may have been completed, but not due to maturity of experience." These ages have their own tragedies. This period in one's life cannot tolerate any imperfections in one's appearance: status, wealth, family, and demeanor, grace, and dignity in public. However, the young man was often betrayed by the child who still appeared in his heart from time to time, and insensible people always regarded him as a child. "The author grasps this unique personality contradiction in adolescence and interprets witty stories chapter after chapter.