Penrod and Sam

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 Age of literature. First published in 1916, Tarkington''s novel “Penrod and Sam” is the second installment to "The Pe...