Classic American Juvenile Fiction: 3 Books By Booth Tarkington includes Penrod, Penrod and Sam, and Seventeen. According to Wikipedia, "Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.... Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of th...