George Ade
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George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, librettist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the
Ade in 1904
Ade (left), with John T. McCutcheon, circa 1894–1895
George Ade, 1903
Ade's house near Brook, Indiana
Booth Tarkington
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Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Ficti
George Ade
…Ade also wrote scripts and had some of his fables and plays adapted into motion pictures. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Ade, along with Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. The Purdue University graduate from rural Newton…
Tarkington in 1922
Cover page for Penrod, depicting Penrod Schofield and his dog Duke (1914)
Newton Booth Tarkington by 19th-20th century artist John White Alexander
Tarkington is interred in the Tarkington-Jameson mausoleum at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.