Booth Tarkington
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 Me…
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Filmography
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Movies (64)
The Magnificent Ambersons
2002Novel
On Moonlight Bay
1951Story
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946Novel
Presenting Lily Mars
1943Novel
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942Novel
Father's Son
1941Story
Little Orvie
1940Novel
Seventeen
1940Novel
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938Story
Penrod and His Twin Brother
1938Story
Clarence
1937Theatre Play
Penrod and Sam
1937Novel
Gentle Julia
1936Novel
Mississippi
1935Story
Alice Adams
1935Novel
Business and Pleasure
1932Novel
Father's Son
1931Novel
Penrod and Sam
1931Novel
Penrod and Sam
1931Story
Monte Carlo
1930Novel
Cameo Kirby
1930Theatre Play
The River of Romance
1929Original Story
Mister Antonio
1929Theatre Play
Geraldine
1929Original Story
Pampered Youth
1925Novel
The Man Who Found Himself
1925Co-Writer
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924Novel
The Fighting Coward
1924Theatre Play
Pied Piper Malone
1924Story
The Turmoil
1924Novel
Cameo Kirby
1923Original Story
Gentle Julia
1923Novel
Boy of Mine
1923Story
Penrod and Sam
1923Novel
Alice Adams
1923Novel
Clarence
1922Theatre Play
Penrod
1922Novel
The Flirt
1922Novel
The Man From Home
1922Writer
Edgar, the Detective
1921Writer
You Find it Everywhere
1921Novel
Edgar's Feast Day
1921Story
Edgar's Country Cousin
1921Writer
The Conquest of Canaan
1921Novel
Edgar Camps Out
1920Writer
Edgar Takes the Cake
1920Story
Edgar's Little Saw
1920Writer
Get Rich Quick Edgar
1920Writer
Edgar's Hamlet
1920Original Story
Edgar's Jonah Day
1920Story
Edgar's Sunday Courtship
1920Story
Edgar and the Teacher's Pet
1920Novel
The Country Cousin
1919Theatre Play
The Flirt
1916Story
The Conquest of Canaan
1916Novel
Seventeen
1916Novel
The Turmoil
1916Novel
The Gentleman from Indiana
1915Novel
The Man From Home
1914Writer
Cameo Kirby
1914Original Story
Cherry
1914Novel
Springtime
1914Original Story
Beau Brummel
1913Novel
Monsieur Beaucaire, the Adventures of a Gentleman of France
1905Novel
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