Biography
Newton Booth Tarkington (1869β1946) 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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The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
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On Moonlight Bay (1951)
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Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
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Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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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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Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)
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Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)
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Penrod and Sam (1937)
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Clarence (1937)
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Gentle Julia (1936)
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Alice Adams (1935)
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Mississippi (1935)
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Business and Pleasure (1932)
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Penrod and Sam (1931)
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The Millionaire (1931)
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The Bad Sister (1931)
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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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Mister Antonio (1929)
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River of Romance (1929)
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Geraldine (1929)
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The Man Who Found Himself (1925)
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Pampered Youth (1925)
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The Turmoil (1924)
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Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
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The Fighting Coward (1924)
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Pied Piper Malone (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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Penrod and Sam (1923)
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The Flirt (1922)
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Clarence (1922)
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The Man From Home (1922)
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Penrod (1922)
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The Conquest of Canaan (1921)
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Edgar's Feast Day (1921)
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The Country Cousin (1919)
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Seventeen (1916)
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The Conquest of Canaan (1916)
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The Flirt (1916)
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The Turmoil (1916)
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The Man From Home (1914)
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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, United States of America
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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