Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkington 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 the greatest living author in the United States. Several of his stories were adapted to film.
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The show piece
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1947
Image of Josephine
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1945
Wanton Mally
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1932
Penrod Jashber
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1929
Young Mrs. Greeley
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1929
Claire Ambler
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1928
The plutocrat
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1927
Growth
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1927
Women
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1925
Fascinating Stranger
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1923
The midlander
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1923
Lords of the Housetops
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1921
Alice Adams
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1921
Ramsey Milholland
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1919
The Magnificent Ambersons
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1917
Penrod and Sam
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1916
Seventeen
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1915
Penrod
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1914
The turmoil, a novel
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1914
Penrod
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1913
The Flirt
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1913
Beasley's Christmas Party
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1909
The man from home
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1908
The Guest of Quesnay
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1908
His Own People
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1907
The Conquest of Canaan
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1905
The Beautiful Lady
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1905
In the Arena Stories of Political Life
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1905
The Two Vanrevels
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1902
Monsieur Beaucaire
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1900
The gentleman from Indiana
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1899