Author:Booth Tarkington

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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. 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.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1946, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.