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Nov 4, 2019 · Tarkington’s first serious novel—written as he was approaching fifty—was “The Turmoil” (1915). Ambitious and often impressive, it was greeted in some quarters as a candidate for that ...
Tarkington made his first acting appearance in the club's Shakespearean spoof Katherine, one of the first three productions in the Triangle's history written and produced by students.
Tarkington spent the years of 1891-1893 at Princeton University, although he did not take a degree. Although his education did not follow the usual pattern, it did energize him and afford him...
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.
Jul 25, 2024 · A versatile and prolific writer, he won early recognition with the melodramatic novel The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), reflecting his disillusionment with the corruption in the lawmaking process he was to observe firsthand as a member of the Indiana legislature (1902–03).
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Tarkington won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first in 1918 for The Magnificent Ambersons and the second in 1921 for Alice Adams. In 1933, he received the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold...
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Nov 21, 2018 · Originally hailing from Indianapolis (where many of his novels were set), Newton Booth Tarkington was a degree-less Princeton man whose upper-crust patrician Hoosier family tragically lost much of its wealth during the Panic of 1893 –a tragedy not unlike the crisis facing the fictional Amberson family in The Magnificent Ambersons.
