Penrod

Focusing on a young American boy in the early 1900s, this novel delves into the daydreams and events in the life of Penrod Schofield.  Tarkington created a sympathetic and lovable character in Penrod, and his amusing adventures are sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) produced much work which creates a panorama of social class in America. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. He also illustrated both his own and others’ novels. His best known works, The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams received Pulitzer Prizes.