Tarkington's second wife, Susannah, challenged her husband to "write about boys as they really are." She had brought to his attention a British book about student life at Harrow; Tarkington said "no boy ever talked like the puppets in that story." He set out to write realistic stories about boys like his nephews, or like he had been himself. The Penrod stories were the result.
He developed theories on childhood.
A child in the course of becoming.....
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