Talbot Potter is the main character of his Harlequin and Columbine, while the novel Cherry satirizes academic life.
Talbot Potter is the main character of his Harlequin and Columbine, while the novel Cherry satirizes academic life. His 1905 work about life in a small town took its name from a work by Timothy Dwight, The Conquest of Canaan, and he wrote eleven plays with Harry Leon Wilson. His characters include Minnie Briscoe, at whose home Helen Sherwood and John Harkless meet, and a French nobleman, who falls in love with Mary Carlisle. Those figures appear in the works, The Gentleman from Indiana and Monsieur Beaucaire, and were less popular in his day than the coming of age yarns: Seventeen and Penrod. Best remembered for his 1918 novel about George Minivar's love for Lucy Morgan, for ten points, identify this man who wrote Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons.
Talbot Potter is the main character of his Harlequin and Columbine, while the novel Cherry satirizes academic life.
Newton Booth {Tarkington}