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Writer
Booth Tarkington
- Born July 29, 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Died May 19, 1946
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.
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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.
Known for
The Magnificent Ambersons1942
Alice Adams1935
On Moonlight Bay1951
Monte Carlo1930
The Magnificent Ambersons2002
Presenting Lily Mars1943
Monsieur Beaucaire1946
Cameo Kirby1923
Filmography
- 2002The Magnificent AmbersonsFilmNovel
- 1951On Moonlight BayFilmStory
- 1946Monsieur BeaucaireFilmNovel
- 1943Presenting Lily MarsFilmNovel
- 1942The Magnificent AmbersonsFilmNovel
- 1941Father's SonFilmStory
- 1940Little OrvieFilmNovel
- 1940SeventeenFilmNovel
- 1938Penrod and His Twin BrotherFilmStory
- 1938Penrod's Double TroubleFilmStory
- 1937Penrod and SamFilmNovel
- 1937ClarenceFilmTheatre Play
- 1936Gentle JuliaFilmNovel
- 1935Alice AdamsFilmNovel
- 1935MississippiFilmStory
- 1932Business and PleasureFilmNovel
- 1931Penrod and SamFilmStory, Novel
- 1931Father's SonFilmNovel
- 1930Monte CarloFilmNovel
- 1930Cameo KirbyFilmTheatre Play
- 1929The River of RomanceFilmOriginal Story
- 1929Mister AntonioFilmTheatre Play
- 1929GeraldineFilmOriginal Story
- 1925Pampered YouthFilmNovel
- 1925The Man Who Found HimselfFilmCo-Writer
- 1924Monsieur BeaucaireFilmNovel
- 1924The Fighting CowardFilmTheatre Play
- 1924Pied Piper MaloneFilmStory
- 1924The TurmoilFilmNovel
- 1923Cameo KirbyFilmOriginal Story
- 1923Penrod and SamFilmNovel
- 1923Gentle JuliaFilmNovel
- 1923Boy of MineFilmStory
- 1923Alice AdamsFilmNovel
- 1922The Man From HomeFilmWriter
- 1922ClarenceFilmTheatre Play
- 1922PenrodFilmNovel
- 1922The FlirtFilmNovel
- 1921Edgar's Feast DayFilmStory
- 1921The Conquest of CanaanFilmNovel
- 1921You Find it EverywhereFilmNovel
- 1921Edgar, the DetectiveFilmWriter
- 1921Edgar's Country CousinFilmWriter
- 1920Edgar's Jonah DayFilmStory
- 1920Edgar and the Teacher's PetFilmNovel
- 1920Edgar's HamletFilmOriginal Story
- 1920Edgar Takes the CakeFilmStory
- 1920Edgar's Sunday CourtshipFilmStory
- 1920Edgar's Little SawFilmWriter
- 1920Edgar Camps OutFilmWriter
- 1920Get Rich Quick EdgarFilmWriter
- 1919The Country CousinFilmTheatre Play
- 1916The Conquest of CanaanFilmNovel
- 1916The TurmoilFilmNovel
- 1916SeventeenFilmNovel
- 1916The FlirtFilmStory
- 1915The Gentleman from IndianaFilmNovel
- 1914The Man From HomeFilmWriter
- 1914CherryFilmNovel
- 1914Cameo KirbyFilmOriginal Story
- 1914SpringtimeFilmOriginal Story
- 1913Beau BrummelFilmNovel
- 1905Monsieur Beaucaire, the Adventures of a Gentleman of FranceFilmNovel