Booth Tarkington
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Known For Writer
Gender Male
Birthday 1869-07-29
Deathday 1946-05-19 (76 years old)
Place of Birth Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Also Known As Newton Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington
Biography
Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) 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. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.
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