BOOTH TARKINGTON – SEVENTEEN 1932 1st Ed. SIGNED

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PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR OTHER eBay Auctions of ORIGINAL Political, Historical & Civil War (1750-Current), Entertainment, Film, Movie, Music, Opera & Stage (1860-1960s) Autographs, Photographs & Film / Studio Production Artwork & Sketches (1940s – 1960s) Currently Available! UACC Member RARE & UNIQUE! GUARANTEED 100% AUTHENTIC BOOTH TARKINGTON – SEVENTEEN SIGNED 1932 EDITION Seventeen - Signed 1932 copy by Booth Tarkington Book Description: publisher Harper & Brothers, 1932. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: has Dustjacket. Rare edition in very good condition. Moderate shelf-wear mainly around spine, edges and corners. Binding is SOLID. Endpapers tanned with author inscription on ffep. Inside pages clean overall in very good condition. **Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. BiographyBooth Tarkington was born Newton Booth Tarkington in Indianapolis , Indiana . He was the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington, and named after his maternal uncle Newton Booth, then the governor of California . Tarkington was also related to Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth [1848-1850]. Tarkington first attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis , but completed his secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy , a boarding school on the East Coast. [1] Tarkington attended Purdue University for two years, was a member of the university's Morley Eating Club, and then transferred to Princeton University for another two years, but never officially graduated from either. Booth Tarkington made substantial donations to Purdue for the building of an all-men's residence hall, which the university named Tarkington Hall, in his honor. It also awarded him an honorary degree.[2] At Princeton , Tarkington was active as a student-actor in what is now known as "The Triangle Club". According to Triangle's official history,[3] Tarkington made his first acting appearance in the club's Shakespearean spoof "Katherine" (this was one of the first three productions in the Club's history that was written and produced by Princeton students, a tradition maintained to the present day). Tarkington returned to the Triangle stage as Cassius in the 1893 production "The Honorable Julius Caesar." Tarkington gained prominence that year at Princeton as a co-author of the play, and as the President of Princeton's Dramatic Association (the name of the club before it was officially changed to "The Triangle Club"). In addition to his membership in and role as founder of The Triangle Club, he was also a member of the Ivy Club, the first of Princeton 's historic Eating Clubs. At Princeton he also edited the "Nassau Literary Magazine". Tarkington failed to earn his undergraduate degree, the A.B., due to a single missing course in the classics. Nevertheless, his place within campus society was already determined, as he was voted most popular in the class for 1893. In his adult life, he was asked to return to Princeton on two occasions for the conferral of two honorary degrees, an A.M. in 1899 and a Litt.D. in 1918. The conferral of more than one honorary degree on an alumnus at Princeton University remains a record for the institution. Many aspects of Tarkington's Princeton years prefigured those of the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald who, while an undergraduate nearly 25 years later, also reveled in the literary arts and socialized in the Eating Clubs of Prospect Avenue, but failed to earn his degree as well. Tarkington was a world traveller who spent much of his later life in Kennebunkport , Maine , and left his papers to Colby College . At the same ... read more

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