Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1869
- Died
- 1946
- Works
- 419
Top works
- Booth Tarkington on dogs
- More Stories to Remember -- Volume II
- Marriage
- Magnificent Ambersons (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
- The beautiful lady
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 31
- Total plays
- 248
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Key facts
- Born
- Newton Booth Tarkington , ( 1869-07-29 ) July 29, 1869, Indianapolis , Indiana, U.S.
- Died
- May 19, 1946 (1946-05-19) (aged 76), Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
- Resting place
- Crown Hill Cemetery and Arboretum, Section 13, Lot 56 39°49′08″N 86°10′33″W / 39.8188341°N 86.1757734°W / 39.8188341; -86.1757734
- Occupation
- Novelist, dramatist
- Education
- Purdue University , Princeton University
- Years active
- 1899–1946
- Notable works
- Penrod (1914) The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) Alice Adams (1921)
- Notable awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1919, 1922)
- Spouse
- Louisa Fletcher ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1902 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1911 ) Susanah Keifer Robinson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1912 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Booth Tarkington, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the greatest living author in the United States. Several of his stories were adapted to film.
During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, Gene Stratton-Porter and James Whitcomb Riley helped create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Booth Tarkington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.