His own people

Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist. He was one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Tarkington was an unabashed Midwestern regionalist, if somewhat of a world traveler, and set much of his fiction in his native Indiana. Although Tarkington never earned a college degree, he got many awards recognizing and honoring his skills and accomplishments as an author.