| The Conquest of Canaan (1905). By: Booth Tarkington, illustrated By: Lucius W. Hitchcock: Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock (1868-1942) Contributor(s): Hitchcock, Lucius W. (Author), Tarkington, Booth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1546473955 ISBN-13: 9781546473954 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 8" W x 10" (0.71 lbs) 156 pages |
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| Publisher Description: (Hitchcock, Lucius Wolcott, 1868-1942).illustrator 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 three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Biography: Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. He was named after his maternal uncle Newton Booth, then the governor of California. He was also related to Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth through Woodworth's wife Almyra Booth Woodworth. Tarkington first attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, but completed his secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy, a boarding school on the East Coast. He attended Purdue University for two years, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the university's Morley Eating Club. He later made substantial donations to Purdue for building an all-men's residence hall, which the university named Tarkington Hall in his honor. Purdue awarded him an honorary doctorate...... |