Booth Tarkington
Writer
Notable Achievement
The Magnificent Ambersons Pulitzer Prize winner
Biography
Newton Booth Tarkington 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 the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film.
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Birthday Date
Booth Tarkington was born on July 29