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Tarkington was married to Laura Louisa Fletcher from 1902 until their divorce in 1911. Their only child, Laurel, was born in 1906 and died in 1923. Fletcher, a published poet, was involved in adapting his fiction for the stage. [ 19 ]
Nov 4, 2019 · More important, he finds himself a married man. There have been several misfires, but now he woos and wins Louisa Fletcher, the daughter of an Indianapolis banking family, a graduate of Smith...
May 1, 2004 · Dreiser, his exact Indiana contemporary, might look at the Model T and see wage slaves in need of unions and sit-down strikes; Tarkington saw pollution, and a filthy tampering with human nature...
In 1902, Tarkington married Laurel Louisa Fletcher and was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives as a Republican, though he was forced to vacate his seat a year later due to an illness. The couple spent most of the next decade traveling through Europe, but Booth's happiness, as well as his writing, were disrupted by bouts of excessive ...
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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Aug 15, 2019 · Mallon: Alice Adams is a splendid, neglected work, the author’s masterpiece, an unsparing study of a little human catastrophe that’s jointly perpetrated by nature and nurture. Tarkington never goes soft in this novel. Outwriting himself, he sees things through to their bitter, true conclusion.
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Established as a major young writer, Tarkington married Louisa Fletcher in 1902. That same year, he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. He served in that capacity for only...
