Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist from Indianapolis, and one of only a handful of writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He was among the most popular American authors of the 1910s and 1920s, writing about the midwestern middle class as industry and motor cars remade it. He continued writing after going blind in his sixties, dictating to a secretary.