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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 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.
Nov 4, 2019 · In 1922, the writer Booth Tarkington appeared on the Times’ list of the twelve greatest American men.
May 15, 2024 · Booth Tarkington (born July 29, 1869, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.—died May 19, 1946, Indianapolis) was an American novelist and dramatist, best-known for his satirical and sometimes romanticized pictures of American Midwesterners.
Jul 29, 2019 · Booth Tarkington, “The Need of Money”. “ [ The Magnificent Ambersons] was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end.”.
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), American playwright and author, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and again in 1922 for Alice Adams (1921), later adapted to the screen starring Katherine Hepburn.
Newton Booth Tarkington, an enormously prolific novelist, playwright, and short story writer who chronicled urban middle-class life in the American Midwest during the early twentieth century, was born in Indianapolis on July 29, 1869.
Jun 27, 2018 · The prolific writings of American author Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) include the novels "Penrod" and "Seventeen" and many successful Broadway plays.
Booth Tarkington, “To the Girls and Boys of Indianapolis,” broadside, 1945. Exploiting his fame and moral authority, Booth Tarkington appeals to the children of Indianapolis to raise money for the war effort.
Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and short story author, who in the 1910s and 1920s was considered one of America's best living author, though he is little-known today. At one time, his Penrod series was as well known as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction/Novel more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike and Colson Whitehead. Although he is little read now, in ...
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