Director

Booth Tarkington

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 58

TMDB ID: 148834

IMDb ID: nm0850483

Known for: Writing

Born: July 29, 1869

Died: May 19, 1946

Age: 76

Place of birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1913 - 2002

Years active: 90

Average TMDB rating: 6.75

Wikidata: Q893138

Also known as

Newton Booth Tarkington

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Novel (28)Story (11)Writer (7)Theatre Play (6)Original Story (5)Co-Writer (1)

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Biography

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.

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