Tarkington, (Newton) Booth
- Tarkington, (Newton) Booth
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died May 19, 1946, Indianapolis
U.S. novelist and dramatist.
He became known for satirical and sometimes romanticized pictures of Midwesterners in humorous portrayals of boyhood and adolescence that include the young-people's classics
Penrod (1914),
Seventeen (1916), and
Gentle Julia (1922). The trilogy
Growth (1927) includes
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918, Pulitzer Prize; film, 1942), which traces the decline of a once-powerful and prominent family.
Alice Adams (1921; film, 1923, 1935), a searching character study, is perhaps his most finished novel.
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