Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

Bibliography

• The Gentleman from Indiana (1899)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted for the stage)
• The Two Vanrevels (1902)
• Penrod (1914)
• Penrod and Sam (1916)
• Seventeen (1917)
• Gentle Julia (1922)
• The Turmoil (1915)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1941 by Orson Welles)
• The Midlander (1924) (1927; the last two combined as Growth)
• The Plutocrat (1927)
• Alice Adams (1921; won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1935)
• Claire Ambler (1928)
• Penrod Jashber (1929)
• Mirthful Haven (1930)
• Mary's Neck (1932)
• Presenting Lily Mars (1933)