Author: Mayberry, Susannah, introduction by James Woodress,
Title: My Amiable Uncle: Recollections about Booth Tarkington.
Description: West Lfayette, Indiana, Purdue Univ Press, (1986). 3rd prntg. VG in VG DJ. Frontis of Tarkington at his writing desk. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1919 for the Magnificent Ambersons. and in 1922 for Alice Adams. His play Clarence launched Alfred Lunt on his distinquished career and provided Helen Hayes wiht an earlyl successful role. His Penrod books continued the American boy-stirt tradition. Early in this century his novel Turmoil warned of sacrificing the environment to industrial growth. Author Mayberry is the grand niece of Tarkington. Her recollections of him leap from the pages of her book. She said no one who met him ever forgot him: a young man about town, a prankster, the bereaved father, and the affection of three women simultaneously. Mayberry recreates an era of elegant and leiuurely living. A substantial introduction places Tarkington within his literary milieu, and reviews briefly his major works.

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