Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
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Tarkington, Booth (Newton Booth), 1869-1946
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ターã‚ントン, ブース
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Tarkington, B. 1869-1946 (Booth),
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Van Loot Cornelius Obenchain 1869-1946
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Tarkington, Newton Booth 1869-1946
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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own plans for a house. When he built his new house and was collecting pictures, as he always did, he asked me to paint a portrait of Susanah and to do two panels for the dining room." --Mildred G. Burrage, 28 September 1979 [from the collection]
American novelist and dramatist.
American Novelist.
Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), native of Indianapolis and student at Purdue and Princeton universities (Princeton Class of 1893), was perhaps Indiana's most famous author, both as a playwright and as novelist. His best-known works were written in the first decades of the twentieth century: The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), Penrod (1910), Seventeen (1917), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918), and Alice Adams (1921). The last two won Pulitzer Prizes. In his work he showed an appreciation of the development of his native city, and an amiable understanding of the real and imagined problems of young people. He was an early member of The Dramatic Club, founded in 1889, and often wrote plays and directed and acted in its productions.
Indianapolis novelist and playwright. Tarkington was an early member of the Dramatic Club, and an art collector. During his later years he spent about half the year at his home in Kennebunkport, Me.
Tarkington was an Indianapolis, Ind. novelist and playwright. Later in his life Tarkington spent half the year in Indianapolis and the other half in Kennebunkport, Me. Miss Chapin seems to have been the secretary of Henry G. Leach, editor of the FORUM magazine.
Booth Tarkington was a popular, successful, and productive American writer. His best work is characterized by style, wit, and vivid social realism, and is generally well-crafted and entertaining. He wrote novels, plays, short stories, and essays, and was awarded two of the first four Pulitzer Prizes for novels.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dramatist from Indiana, best known for THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, and such books about adolescents as PENROD and SEVENTEEN.
American novelist.
Author. Name in full: Newton Booth Tarkington.
American author.
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Writer, politician.
Two time Pulitzer prizes winner, Booth Tarkington was best known for his narratives describing middle-class life in the American Midwest of the early twentieth century. First published at age 6 in the Saturday Evening Post, Tarkington drifted for many years until moving to New York City in 1895 where he wrote his first novel, The Gentleman from Indiana in 1899. In 1902 Tarkington married and was elected to a seat in the Indiana House of Representatives, which he was forced to give.
Up due to illness in 1903. By the 1920s Tarkington was living in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana, and wintering in Kennebunkport, Maine which served as inspiration for many more of his works.
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Kennebunkport (Me.)
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