Alice Adams is a 1921
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by
Booth Tarkington. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by
Rowland V. Lee and, more famously, in 1935 by
George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman, Alice Adams, who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after
World War I.