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Booth Tarkington
Writer, Additional Credits
Born July 29, 1869Died May 19, 1946 (76 years)
Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) 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. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.
Filmography
| 2001 | The Magnificent Ambersons · as Novel |
| 1953 | Television Theater (TV Series) · as Novel |
| 1946 | Monsieur Beaucaire · as Novel |
| 1943 | Presenting Lily Mars · as Novel |
| 1942 | The Magnificent Ambersons · as Novel |
| 1940 | Little Orvie · as Novel |
| 1937 | Penrod and Sam · as Novel |
| 1935 | Alice Adams · as Novel |
| 1932 | Business and Pleasure · as Novel |
| 1930 | Monte Carlo · as Novel |
| 1925 | Pampered Youth · as Novel |
| 1924 | Monsieur Beaucaire · as Novel |
| 1923 | Penrod and Sam · as Novel |
| 1922 | |
| 1914 | Cherry · as Novel |