These works departed from his typical subject matter, which is better seen in The Conquest of Canaan and later female portraits like Claire Ambler and Presenting Lily Mars.  
Among his plays were Clarence and a dramatization of his own novel, Monsieur Beaucaire.  These works departed from his typical subject matter, which is better seen in The Conquest of Canaan and later female portraits like Claire Ambler and Presenting Lily Mars.  The serious trilogy Growth, which started with Turmoil and ended with The Midlander, contained his most famous novel with its second installment.   However, the majority of his best-sellers were amusing tales of adolescence as in Gentle Julia, Penrod, and Seventeen.  FTP, name this Indiana native and author of Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons.
Among his plays were Clarence and a dramatization of his own novel, Monsieur Beaucaire.  
Newton Booth Tarkington