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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869, Indianapolis – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Ada...
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Booth Tarkington. Biography of Booth Tarkington and a searchable collection of works. ... Newton Booth Tarkington was born 29 July 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Elizabeth and John Stevenson Tarkington, a lawyer and judge. He first attended Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, then Princeton in New Jersey...
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Tarkington, [Newton] Booth (1869-1946), novelist and playwright, spent his first two years of college at Purdue, his last two at Princeton. ... Tarkington's singing of Kipling's ballad, ``The Hanging of Danny Deever'' was a highlight of student life in his time. Sooner or later, when the seniors gathered on the steps...
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Although his first book was about English romance, Newton Booth Tarkington, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, came to be known for his comical (and almost cynical) style of the Lost Generation that characterized the 1920's. Born to a middle class family in Indianapolis in 1869, he is forever connected to Indiana and...
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Hoosier Connection:Booth Tarkington was a native Hoosier whose work continually reflected his homeland connections to Indianapolis. Indiana figures strongly in his writings, either as a vivid backdrop to his narratives or as a focus for his storylines.
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Born Newton Booth Tarkington in Indianapolis, Indiana, the second child of lawyer John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. He attended Purdue University and then Princeton University but graduated from neither.
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Writer: The Magnificent Ambersons. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites.
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Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), native of Indianapolis, 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...
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