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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 .
Nov 4, 2019 · Newton Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis in 1869, his father a prosperous lawyer. But it was his mother who was the dominant figure in the family—she and her brother, Newton Booth, a ...
2 days ago · 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. Tarkington studied at Purdue and Princeton universities but took no degree. A versatile and prolific writer, he won ...
Newton Booth Tarkington was born 29 July 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Elizabeth and John Stevenson Tarkington, a lawyer and judge. He first attended Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, then Princeton in New Jersey where he was editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine. Ever the raconteur, he was immensely popular at school, and ...
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction/Novel more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike and Colson Whitehead. Although he is little read now, in ...
Jun 27, 2018 · 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. His childhood was as happy and secure as his doting, well-educated, church-going, and prosperous parents could make it. He showed an early interest in writing and ...
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction . In 1925, it was adapted into the silent film Pampered Youth directed by David Smith.
