Booth Tarkington
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1869-07-29 (77 years old)
Deathday
1946-05-19
Place of Birth
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Also known As
Newton Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington
Biography
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.
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1922
as Theatre Play
1951
as Story
1946
as Novel
1943
as Novel
1935
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1916
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1924
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1930
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as Novel
1938
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1936
as Novel
1931
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1931
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1940
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1941
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1922
as Writer
1937
as Theatre Play
1924
as Novel
1916
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1940
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1931
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1921
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1942
as Novel
1922
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1923
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1914
as Writer
1930
as Theatre Play
1924
as Theatre Play
1924
as Story
1923
as Original Story
1914
as Original Story
1905
as Novel
1914
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1920
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1920
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1929
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1920
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1920
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1925
as Novel
1937
as Novel
1923
as Novel
1923
as Story
1913
as Novel
1925
as Co-Writer
1921
as Novel
1916
as Novel
1919
as Theatre Play
1916
as Story
1935
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1932
as Novel
1921
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1920
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1920
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1921
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1922
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1929
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1929
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1938
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