Booth Tarkington
Novelist, Author
1869 – 1946
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Who was Booth Tarkington?
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is, with William Faulkner and John Updike, one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.
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- Born
- Jul 29, 1869
Indianapolis - Also known as
- Newton Booth Tarkington
- Tark
- Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams
- Parents
- Spouses
- Laurel Fletcher
(1902 - 1911) - Susanah Keifer Robinson
(1912 - )
- Laurel Fletcher
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- Shortridge High School
- Lived in
- Indianapolis
- Died
- May 19, 1946
Indianapolis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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