Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Booth Tarkington
Born: July 29, 1869
Died: May 19, 1946 (aged 76)
Bio: Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.
Known for:
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)
- Penrod (1914)
- Alice Adams (1921)
- Penrod and Sam (1916)
- The gentleman from Indiana (1899)