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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Father's Son (1941)
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Little Orvie (1940)
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Seventeen (1940)
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Clarence (1937)
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Gentle Julia (1936)
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Alice Adams (1935)
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Father's Son (1931)
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Monte Carlo (1930)
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Cameo Kirby (1930)
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Geraldine (1929)
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The Turmoil (1924)
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Boy of Mine (1923)
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Gentle Julia (1923)
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Cameo Kirby (1923)
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The Flirt (1922)
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Clarence (1922)
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Penrod (1922)
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Seventeen (1916)
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The Flirt (1916)
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The Turmoil (1916)
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Beau Brummel (1913)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1869-07-29
Deathday1946-05-19 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceIndianapolis, Indiana, USA
RelativesTarkington Baker
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsNewton Booth Tarkington
AwardsWilliam Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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