Booth Tarkington ( 1869 - 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 (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. In this book: The Magnificent Ambersons Penrod Penrod and Sam Alice Adams Seventeen, A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William The Flirt