“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”

About Booth Tarkington

Author • American

Newton Booth Tarkington was a highly acclaimed American novelist and dramatist known for his insightful works on Midwestern American life. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than...