Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American author, best known for the novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams . He is a multiple time Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, which is an feat only accomplished by two other authors ( William Faulkner and John Updike ). During the 1910s and 1920s, he was considered to be the greatest living American author.