Show the BOOTH pir NY claim that buoch Is the greatest american writer lie wai born in indianapolis july 29 1869 went to I 1 eler academy and finally to princeton university though lie may leave intended to become an author from the efy beginning lie decided to go in for busl ness at first and took a position with an oil com piny lie began in hla twenties to write alic in I 1 rom indiana which was published when lie was thirty scars old hie same jear his university conferred an A M degree on him took up authorship seriously from eliat time on so great was his first success said eliat lie had established a new school of fiction the first book was followed by bacur also a geat g eat success I 1 rom then on his reputation has steadily grown more recently in collaboration he wrote a play the man I 1 rom home which hid a record run in mcw lork and later placed all over the country lellam n ide ills reputation as the homely wise un spoiled man from alien he wrote the henrod stories beloved by berone ee rone who has any sympathy for boyhood stories of the merely average boy and his average adventures so true to life eliat grown men find their own boyhood in them and gain a greater sympathy with boyhood while they chuckle over them he has also written equally wonderful stories of the boy and girl in the half grown stage of seventeen by deorr adam |