Author:Newton Booth Tarkington
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American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, and his comic stories about Penrod. Wrote as Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkington
Works[edit]
- The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) IA
- Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted as a play) IA
- The Two Vanrevels (1902) IA
- In the Arena: Stories of Political Life (1905) IA
- His Own People (1907) IA
- The Guest of Quesnay (1908) IA
- Beasley's Christmas Party (1909)
- Penrod (juvenile fiction)
- Penrod (1914)
- Penrod and Sam (1916, sequel to Penrod) (Commons file)
- The Spring Concert (1916) IA
- Growth trilogy
- The Turmoil (1915) IA
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) [Pulitzer Prize]
- The Midlander (1923) (re-titled National Avenue in 1927)
- Seventeen (1916) (Commons file)
- Alice Adams (1921) (Commons file) [Pulitzer Prize]
- Gentle Julia (1922)
- The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories (1923) (external scan)
Short works from magazines[edit]
- "A Vatican Sermon" (1904, Harper's) short story
- "Lord Jerningham" (1905 Dec, Everybody's) short story
- "Beauty and the Jacobin (1912 Aug & Sep, Harper's) play
- "About America" (1918, St. Nicholas) ar; letter/sketch
- "Brudie's Pickle" (1922, Everybody's) short story
- "The One Hundred Dollar Bill" (1923 Jan, McCall's) short story
- "The Midlander" illustrated by Frank Street in The Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 41 (1924)
Works about Tarkington[edit]
- "Tarkington, Newton Booth," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Tarkington, Booth," in 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, 1928.
The longest-living author of these works died in 1946, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. These works may 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.
