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Signature. 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.
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Nov 4, 2019 · Newton Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis in 1869, his father a prosperous lawyer. But it was his mother who was the dominant figure in the family—she and her brother, Newton Booth, a ...
Apr 10, 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. Tarkington studied at Purdue and Princeton universities but took no degree.
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Jun 27, 2018 · Learn about the life and works of American author Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), who wrote novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, and plays such as Penrod and Seventeen. Find out his achievements, awards, family, and blindness.
Newton Booth Tarkington 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.
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.”.
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction . In 1925, it was adapted into the silent film Pampered Youth directed by David Smith.
