"My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals..."

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About Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for fiction for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

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