For 10 points, name this Indianan novelist who wrote The Magnificent Ambersons.
This author wrote about the applesauce-obsessed Jane, whose trickery keeps her brother William Baxter out of Miss Pratt's circle of admirers. In another novel Virgil is pressured by his wife into stealing a secret formula for glue from his employer "Lamb and Company" to open his own factory. In one work by this author of Seventeen, Charley Lohr reveals that Walter has defaulted on his debts and the title character has to enroll in Frincke's Business College after lying to her suitor Arthur Russell about her family's wealth. This author of Alice Adams wrote about the wife of Wilbur Minafer, who was in love with Eugene Morgan all along. For 10 points, name this Indianan novelist who wrote The Magnificent Ambersons.
This author wrote about the applesauce-obsessed Jane, whose trickery keeps her brother William Baxter out of Miss Pratt's circle of admirers.
Newton Booth {Tarkington}