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Booth Tarkington

Known for: Writing

Biography: 1869-07-29

Deathday: 1946-05-19 (76 years old)

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.

Filmography

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Movies 49

Writer 47

Writer

Booth Tarkington

Biography

Filmography

all 49

Movies 49

Writer 47

The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

On Moonlight Bay (1951)

Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)

Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Father's Son (1941)

Little Orvie (1940)

Seventeen (1940)

Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)

Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)

Penrod and Sam (1937)

Clarence (1937)

Gentle Julia (1936)

Alice Adams (1935)

Mississippi (1935)

Business and Pleasure (1932)

Penrod and Sam (1931)

The Millionaire (1931)

The Bad Sister (1931)

Father's Son (1931)

Monte Carlo (1930)

Cameo Kirby (1930)

Mister Antonio (1929)

River of Romance (1929)

Geraldine (1929)

The Man Who Found Himself (1925)

Pampered Youth (1925)

The Turmoil (1924)

Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)

The Fighting Coward (1924)

Pied Piper Malone (1924)

Boy of Mine (1923)

Gentle Julia (1923)

Cameo Kirby (1923)

Penrod and Sam (1923)

The Flirt (1922)

Clarence (1922)

The Man From Home (1922)

Penrod (1922)

The Conquest of Canaan (1921)

Edgar's Feast Day (1921)

The Country Cousin (1919)

Seventeen (1916)

The Conquest of Canaan (1916)

The Flirt (1916)

The Turmoil (1916)

The Man From Home (1914)

Beau Brummel (1913)

Information

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

Credited with

Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1869-07-29

Deathday
1946-05-19 (76 years old)

Birth Place
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Relatives
Tarkington Baker

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Newton Booth Tarkington

Awards
William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters