Alice AdamsBy: Booth Tarkington The basis for George Stevenss major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar nominated leading role. In a small Midwestern town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family's lower middle class status a secret, she and her parents concoct various schemes to keep their family afloat. Though