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Booth Tarkington's The Gentleman from Indiana is a captivating tale of love, politics, and personal transformation. Set in rural Indiana, the story follows John Harkless, a principled editor-turned-politician, as he battles corruption and strives to bring justice and progress... Read Full Overview

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) 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... Read Full Overview

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,... Read Full Overview

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. 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... Read Full Overview

The Gentleman From Indiana by Booth Tarkington is a novel set in the early 1900s in rural Indiana. The story follows John Harkless, a young newspaper editor who becomes embroiled in a political scandal involving a corrupt politician and a wealthy businessman. Along the way, Harkless... Read Full Overview