Seventeen
Seventeen is known to U.S. readers as the title of a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington (1869–1946). It also is the name of a popular monthly magazine for teenaged girls that has been continuously published since 1944.
The full title of Tarkington's novel is Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and the Baxter Family, Especially William. Once required reading for generations of high school students, the novel is a humorous account of life as seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
The magazine Seventeen helped define the culture of American youth after.....
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