Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1869-07-29

  • Day of Death

    1946-05-19 (76 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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.

Known For

Crew