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Newton Booth Tarkington
(1869–1946)
 

American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, and his comic stories about Penrod. Wrote as Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington

Works

  • The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) IA
  • Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted as a play) IA
  • The Two Vanrevels (1902) IA
  • In the Arena: Stories of Political Life (1905) IA
  • His Own People (1907) IA
  • The Guest of Quesnay (1908) IA
  • Beasley's Christmas Party (1909)
  • Penrod (juvenile fiction)
    • Penrod (1914)
    • Penrod and Sam (1916, sequel to Penrod) (Commons file)
  • The Spring Concert (1916) IA
  • Growth trilogy
  • Seventeen (1916) (Commons file)
  • Alice Adams (1921) (Commons file) [Pulitzer Prize]
  • Gentle Julia (1922)
  • The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories (1923) (external scan)

Short works from magazines

  • "A Vatican Sermon" (1904, Harper's) short story
  • "Lord Jerningham" (1905 Dec, Everybody's) short story
  • "Beauty and the Jacobin (1912 Aug & Sep, Harper's) play
  • "About America" (1918, St. Nicholas) ar; letter/sketch
  • "Brudie's Pickle" (1922, Everybody's) short story
  • "The One Hundred Dollar Bill" (1923 Jan, McCall's) short story
  • "The Midlander" illustrated by Frank Street in The Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 41 (1924)

Works about Tarkington

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1946, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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