Author:Booth Tarkington

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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946)

American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, and his comic stories about Penrod.

Newton Booth Tarkington

Works

• The Gentleman from Indiana (1899; filmed 1915)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted as a play; filmed 1924, 1946; made for TV in 1958)
• The Two Vanrevels (1902)
• In the Arena: Stories of Political Life (1905)
• Beasley's Christmas Party (1909)
• Penrod (1914; filmed 1922)
• The Turmoil (1915; filmed 1916, 1924; first volume of the trilogy Growth)
• Penrod and Sam (1916; filmed 1923, 1931, 1937)
• Seventeen (1916; filmed 1916, 1940)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1941 by Orson Welles; made for TV in 1950 and 2002; second volume of the trilogy Growth)
• Alice Adams (1921; won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1923, 1935)
• Gentle Julia (1922; filmed 1923, 1936)

About

• “Tarkington, Booth,” Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), 1922.