Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.
'Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William' is a 1917 novel about 17-year-old William Sylvanus Baxter. It takes place in the Midwest just before World War I and satirises first love. 'Seventeen' was first publish...[SEE MORE]