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   Who is Newton Booth Tarkington?

   • 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.

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   Was Newton Booth Tarkington America's greatest living author?

   • Although he is little read now, in the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

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   Where did Booth Tarkington live?

   • Booth Tarkington served one term in the Indiana House of Representatives, was critical of the advent of automobiles, and set many of his stories in the Midwest. He eventually moved to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he continued his life work even as he suffered a loss of vision.

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   Who is 'Sir' in Tarkington?

   • (There’s also, of course, the diffident, well-bred young assistant who, like all such Tarkington heroes, addresses all older men as “Sir” and is so shy of the sparkling young woman who is his colleague in the gallery that he can barely bring himself to address her at all.)

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   Where did the tarkingtons live?

   • In 1905, the Tarkingtons returned to Europe, where their only child, Laurel, was born early the following year in Rome. They then moved to Paris, eventually taking a long lease on an apartment near the Luxembourg Gardens. And there they settled.

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   What is Tarkington's major preoccupation?

   • For the first time, Tarkington addresses head on his major preoccupation, the relentless transformation of American small-town life (seen through rose-tinted glasses) into the ferocious and ugly world of Progress, dominated by ruthless businessmen who are supplanting the “best” families (like his own).

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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.

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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...

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   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.

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   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.

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   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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   • Death Date: May 19, 1946

   • Birth Date: July 29, 1869

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   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 was born on July 29, 1869, the second child of lawyer John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington, in Indianapolis, Ind., a city which was always his home.

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   American novelist. Examine the life, times, and work of Booth Tarkington through detailed author biographies on eNotes.