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Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was one of the most popular writers of the early 20th Century, who first achieved acclaim with his historical romance ‘Monsieur Beaucaire’ (1900). But his more characteristic work was found in such novels as ‘The Gentleman from Indiana’ (1899), ‘The Conquest of Canaan’ (1905), and the trilogy consisting of ‘The Turmoil’ (1915), ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ (1918) and ‘The Midlander’ (1921). He won two Pulitzer Prizes for novels, for ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ and for