Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) 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 America's greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.

Known For

Birth Location Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Born 1869-07-29
Died 1946-05-19
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Movies

1951
1946
Father's Son Story
1941
Little Orvie Novel
1940
Seventeen Novel
1940
1937
Clarence Theatre Play
1937
Gentle Julia Novel
1936
Alice Adams Novel
1935
Mississippi Story
1935
1931
1931
Father's Son Novel
1931
Monte Carlo Novel
1930
Cameo Kirby Theatre Play
1930
1925
1925
The Turmoil Novel
1924
1924
The Fighting Coward Theatre Play
1924
1924
Boy of Mine Story
1923
1923
The Flirt Story
1922
Clarence Theatre Play
1922
1922
Penrod Novel
1922
1921
The Country Cousin Theatre Play
1919
Seventeen Novel
1916
The Flirt Story
1916
The Turmoil Novel
1916
1914
Beau Brummel Novel
1913