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Through his main characters, Tarkington includes all social classes, from the lowest to the highest. At first, Alice Adams strikes the reader as merely an appealing young woman whose main...
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.
Jul 25, 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.
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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.
Nov 4, 2019 · November 4, 2019. In 1922, the writer Booth Tarkington appeared on the Times’ list of the twelve greatest American men. James Montgomery Flagg, “Portrait of Booth Tarkington,” 1916;...
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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.
