Penrod

by Booth Tarkington

Overview

Tarkington's humorous portrayals of boyhood and adolescence became classics and they began with this story about Penrod Schofield, a 12-year-old boy growing up in a small midwestern city.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627937481
Publisher:	Start Classics
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Series:	Start Classics
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	185
File size:	365 KB
Age Range:	6 - 18 Years

About the Author

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 – 1946) was an enormously prolific novelist, playwright, and short story writer who chronicled urban middle-class life in the American Midwest during the early twentieth century. He is best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, and is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. 

Jonathan Yardley is the book critic of and a columnist for the Washington Post. His books include biographies of Ring Lardner and Frederick Exley. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1981.