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Booth Tarkington


 

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869May 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)