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Booth Tarkington

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American novelist (1869-1946)

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Newton Booth Tarkington 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.

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Cover page for Penrod, depicting Penrod Schofield and his dog Duke (1914)Cover page for Penrod, depicting Penrod Schofield and his dog Duke (1914)Newton Booth Tarkington by 19th-20th century artist John White AlexanderNewton Booth Tarkington by 19th-20th century artist John White AlexanderTarkington is interred in the Tarkington-Jameson mausoleum at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.Tarkington is interred in the Tarkington-Jameson mausoleum at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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1945William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1919Pulitzer Prize for the Novel

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Betty FieldAlso in Seventeen (1940)Bebe DanielsAlso in Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)Tim HoltAlso in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)Ernst LubitschAlso in Monte Carlo (1930)W. C. FieldsAlso in Mississippi (1935)Lucille RicksenAlso in Edgar's Country Cousin (1921)

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Newton Booth Tarkington 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 the greatest living author in the United States. Several of his stories were adapted to film.

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United States
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1869 to 1946 · aged 76
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