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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.

Booth Tarkington was innate within Indianapolis, and graduated from either Princeton University in 1893. He was one of a virtually all popular Our contries novelists of his period, by owning The Two Vanrevels and ''Mary's Neck appearing on the annual best-seller lists nine times.

Bibliography
A Gentleman from either Indiana (1899) Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; late altered for the stage) The Two Vanrevels (1902) Penrod (1914) Penrod & Sam (1916) Seventeen (1917) Gentle Julia (1922) A Turmoil (1915) The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1941 by Orson Welles) A Interior (1924) (1927; a endure 2 conjunctive when Incubation) A 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)

Bartleby.com: Booth Tarkington
Brief profile and the text of "The Magnificent Ambersons".

IMDb: Booth Tarkington
Films based on his books and stories.

Booth Tarkington, 1869-1946
Biography of the author. His connection to the Kennebunkport, Maine, area. Maine photos. Links.

Booth Tarkington Papers, 1896-1979
Finding aid for this collection of manuscripts, mainly correspondence, at the Indiana Historical Society. Includes biographical sketch.

Tarkington, [Newton] Booth
A look at the author's years at Princeton.

Tarkington, Booth
Several texts online, including "Alice Adams," "The Gentleman from Indiana," and "The Magnificent Ambersons." Also some sound files. From Project Gutenberg.

Arts: Movies: Titles: M: Magnificent Ambersons, The - 1942
Arts: Movies: Titles: M: Magnificent Ambersons, The - 2002