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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

all 65

Movies 65

Writer 52

Writer

Booth Tarkington

Biography

Filmography

all 65

Movies 65

Writer 52

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)

You Find it Everywhere (1921)

Edgar, the Detective (1921)

Edgar's Feast Day (1921)

Edgar's Country Cousin (1921)

Get Rich Quick Edgar (1920)

Edgar's Little Saw (1920)

Edgar Camps Out (1920)

Edgar Takes the Cake (1920)

Edgar's Jonah Day (1920)

Edgar's Hamlet (1920)

Edgar and the Teacher's Pet (1920)

The Country Cousin (1919)

Seventeen (1916)

The Conquest of Canaan (1916)

The Flirt (1916)

The Turmoil (1916)

The Gentleman from Indiana (1915)

Springtime (1914)

Cameo Kirby (1914)

The Man From Home (1914)

Cherry (1914)

Beau Brummel (1913)

A Gentleman of France (1905)

Edgar's Sunday Courtship

Information

Known ForWriting

GenderMale

Birthday1869-07-29

Deathday1946-05-19 (76 years old)

Birth PlaceIndianapolis, United States

FatherQ131406969

MotherElizabeth Tarkington

RelativesTarkington Baker

Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1869-07-29

Deathday
1946-05-19 (76 years old)

Birth Place
Indianapolis, United States

Father
Q131406969

Mother
Elizabeth Tarkington

Relatives
Tarkington Baker

Citizenships
United States

Also Known As
Newton Booth Tarkington

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