Author:Newton Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington
(1869–1946)

Newton Booth Tarkington

Works

Novels

• The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) (start transcription)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted as a play) (start transcription)
• The Two Vanrevels (1902) (start transcription)
• Cherry (1903) (start transcription)
• The Beautiful Lady (1904) (start transcription)
• The Conquest of Canaan (1905) (start transcription)
• His Own People (1907) (start transcription)
• The Guest of Quesnay (1908) (start transcription)
• Beasley's Christmas Party (1909) (start transcription)
• The Flirt (1913) (start transcription)
• Penrod (1914)
• The Turmoil (1915) (start transcription)
• Penrod and Sam (1916, sequel to Penrod) (start transcription)
• Seventeen (1916) (start transcription)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) [Pulitzer Prize] (transcription project)
• Ramsey Milholland (1919, illustrations by Grant Gordon) (start transcription)
• Alice Adams (1921) [Pulitzer Prize] (transcription project)
• Harlequin and Columbine (1922) (start transcription)
• The Midlander (1923, re-titled National Avenue in 1927)
• Gentle Julia (start transcription)
• Women (1925) (start transcription)
• The Plutocrat (1927)
• Claire Ambler (1928)
• The World Does Move (1928) (start transcription)
• Penrod Jashber (1929) (start transcription)
• Mirthful Haven (1930)
• Mary's Neck (1932)
• Presenting Lily Mars (1933)
• Rumbin Galleries (1934)
• Little Orvie (1934)
• Horse and Buggy Days (1936)
• The Lorenzo Bunch (1936)
• The Fighting Littles (1941)
• The Heritage of Hatcher Ide (1941)
• Kate Fennigate (1943)
• Image of Josephine (1945)
• The Show Piece (1947)

Non-fiction

• Just Princeton: The Place and Idea (1924, contains "Looking Forward to the Great Adventure", "Nipskillions", "The Hopeful Pessimist", "Stars in the Dust-heap", "The Golden Age" and "Happiness Now")
• Some Old Portraits (1939; essays on 17th century artworks)
• What We've Got to Do (1942)
• Booth Tarkington On Dogs (1944)
• Your Amiable Uncle (1949)
• On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers: Selections from the Letters of Booth Tarkington to George C. Tyler and John Peter Toohey, 1918–1925 (1959)

Plays

• Cameo Kirby (1908, with Harry Leon Wilson)
• The Man from Home (1908, with Harry Leon Wilson) (start transcription)
• Your Humble Servant (1910, with Harry Leon Wilson)
• Beauty and the Jacobin (1912, published in Harper's Magazine) (start transcription)
• The Ohio Lady (1916, with Julian Leonard Street, later re-written as The Country Cousin)
• Mister Antonio (1916)
• The Gibson Upright (1919, with Harry Leon Wilson) (start transcription)
• Up from Nowhere (1919, with Harry Leon Wilson)
• Poldekin (1920)
• The Country Cousin (1921) (start transcription)
• The Wren (1921) (start transcription)
• Clarence (1921) (start transcription)
• The Intimate Strangers (1921) (start transcription)
• Rose Briar (1922)
• The Ghost Story (1922) (start transcription)
• Magnolia (1923)
• The Trysting Place (1923) (start transcription)
• Bimbo the Pirate (1924, published in Ladies' Home Journal June 1924) (start transcription)
• Station YYYY (1926, published in Ladies' Home Journal, May 1926) (start transcription)
• The Travelers (1927) (start transcription)
• How's Your Health? (1930)
• Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson (written 1940, dramatized as a radio play 1945)

Short story collections

• In the Arena (1905) (start transcription)
• The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories (1923) (start transcription)
• Looking Forward, and Others (1926) (start transcription)

Works from magazines

• "The Old Gray Eagle" Everybody's Magazine, 1901 July (ss)
• "A Vatican Sermon" (1904, Harper's) short story
• "Lord Jerningham" (1905 Dec, Everybody's) short story
• "Penrod and the Pageant" Everybody's Magazine, 1913 June (ss)
• "The Second Name for Vreedersburgh" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Aug (ss)
• "Brudie's Pickle" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Sept (ss)
• "The Spring Concert" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Oct (ss) [Lucius Brutus Allen]
• "The Horn of Fame" Cosmopolitan, 1916 Oct (ss) [Penrod]
• "Maytime in Marlow" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Nov (ss) [Lucius Brutus Allen]
• "Maud and Bill" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Dec (ss) [Lucius Brutus Allen]
• "The Only Child" Everybody's Magazine, 1917 Jan (ss) [Lucius Brutus Allen]
• "The Rich Man's War" (1917, published by the National Security League's campaign of Patriotism Through Education and reprinted in Building and Engineering News, August 7, 1918) (start transcription)
• "About America" (1918, St. Nicholas) article
• "Mr. Howells" in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 141 (1920) IA
• "Jeannette" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 May (ss)
• "Laurence and Roger" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 June (ss)
• "The Party" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 July (ss)
• "The Street of Bad Children" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Aug (ss)
• "The Tiger" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Sept (ss)
• "Ladies' Ways" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Oct (ss)
• "Willamilla" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Nov (ss)
• "The Doormat's Revolt" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Dec (ss)
• "Two Hearts That Beat As One" (1922 Apr, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "You" (1922 Aug, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Renfrew and the New Generation" (1922 June, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Young Love and Younger Crime" (1922 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "The One Hundred Dollar Bill" (1923 Jan, McCall's) short story
• "What Chance Has a Man?" (1923 May, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Here Comes the Bridegroom" (1923 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "'Thea Zell" (1925 April, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Geraldine" (1925 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "The Midlander" illustrated by Frank Street in The Ladies' Home Journal, (1923)
• "Cornelia's Mountain" The Ladies' Home Journal, (1925)
• "Foreign Exchange" (1910 Sept, Ainslee's) with Harry Leon Wilson (novella)

Others

• Samuel Brohl and Company (1902, translation from the French by Victor Cherbuliez, introduction by Tarkington) (start transcription)
• Poe's Run and Other Poems (1904, written by M'Cready Sykes, with illustrations by Tarkington) (start transcription)
• The Spring Concert (1916, booklet) (start transcription)
• "What the Victory or Defeat of Germany Means to Every American" (1917 in Shurter's Patriotic Selections for Supplementary Reading) (start transcription)
• The Name of Old Glory: Poems of Patriotism (1917, by James Whitcomb Riley with an introduction by Tarkington) (start transcription)
• Literature in the Making (1917, authors discussing the state of literature and publishing (start transcription))
• War Stories (1919, short story anthology that includes Tarkington's "Captain Schlotterwere") (start transcription)
• R.H.D.: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis By Various Authors of Some Repute (1917) IA, about Richard Harding Davis, includes one contribution by Tarkington
• The Collector's Whatnot (1923, a humor book written with Hugh Kahler and Kenneth L. Roberts under pseudonyms) (start transcription)

Works about Tarkington

• "Tarkington, Newton Booth," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• Booth Tarkington, by Robert Cortes Holliday (1918, (start transcription)
• "Tarkington, Booth," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
• Review of 'Penrod' in Punch Magazine (August 26th 1914),