Booth Tarkington
American novelist (1869-1946) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 76
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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E. Mason Hopper Directed Edgar and the Teacher's Pet (1920)
William C. McGann Directed Penrod and Sam (1937)
Philip Hurlic Also in Penrod and Sam (1937)
Buddy Messinger Also in Edgar's Jonah Day and Edgar's Little Saw
Hope Loring Also in Boy of Mine and Penrod and Sam
John Cossar Also in Edgar and the Teacher's Pet (1920)
Leonid Kinskey Also in Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Orson Welles Directed The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Rudolph Valentino Booth wrote Seventeen (1916)
George Stevens Directed Alice Adams (1935)
Norman Taurog Directed Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Lois Wilson Booth wrote Pied Piper Malone (1924)
Wesley Ruggles Directed Mississippi (1935)
Sidney Olcott Directed Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
A. Edward Sutherland Directed Mississippi (1935)
Doris Kenyon Also in The Conquest of Canaan (1921)
Thomas Meighan Also in The Conquest of Canaan (1921)
Marshall Neilan Directed Penrod (1922)
Hobart Henley Directed The Flirt (1922)
Joe Pasternak Produced Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Stuart Walker Produced Seventeen (1940)
Edgar Jones Directed The Turmoil (1916)
Macey Harlam Also in The Conquest of Canaan (1921)
Riley Hatch Also in The Conquest of Canaan (1921)
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In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the greatest living author in the United States. Several of his stories were adapted to film.
