Those were interesting lists--and I was surprised at the number of authors (if not necessarily the specific books) that I knew: Mary Roberts Rinehart, Zane Grey, the woman who wrote the LIMBERLOST books, a different Winston Churchill (although the writer of the article apparently doesn't know that THE Winston Churchill was half American). It really is a sad commentary on the complete oblivion into which Booth Tarkington has fallen that a first edition of the best selling book of 1915 goes for $3!
/I have a first edition of MURDER AT THE SUPERBOWL, co-written by Fran Tarkington that would probably fetch more.
A lot of those names were familiar to me, too, Deb, and I've even read books by some of them. I loved the Penrod books by Booth Tarkington when I was a kid.
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Those were interesting lists--and I was surprised at the number of authors (if not necessarily the specific books) that I knew: Mary Roberts Rinehart, Zane Grey, the woman who wrote the LIMBERLOST books, a different Winston Churchill (although the writer of the article apparently doesn't know that THE Winston Churchill was half American). It really is a sad commentary on the complete oblivion into which Booth Tarkington has fallen that a first edition of the best selling book of 1915 goes for $3!
/I have a first edition of MURDER AT THE SUPERBOWL, co-written by Fran Tarkington that would probably fetch more.
A lot of those names were familiar to me, too, Deb, and I've even read books by some of them. I loved the Penrod books by Booth Tarkington when I was a kid.
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