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Booth Tarkington

Born

in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States

July 29, 1869

Died

May 19, 1946

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Plays

Influences

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Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction/Novel more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike and Colson Whitehead. Although he is little read now, in the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 23,386 ratings · 2,613 reviews · 548 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Magnificent Ambersons 3.79 avg rating — 12,493 ratings — published 1918 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alice Adams 3.63 avg rating — 4,910 ratings — published 1921 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penrod by Booth Tarkington, Jonathan Yardley (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 1,648 ratings — published 1914 — 101 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seventeen 3.86 avg rating — 794 ratings — published 1915 — 322 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penrod and Sam 4.04 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 1916 — 303 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Turmoil (The Growth Trilogy, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 1915 — 243 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beasley's Christmas Party by Booth Tarkington, Ruth Sypherd Clements (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 1909 — 177 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penrod Jashber 4.17 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1929 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gentleman from Indiana 3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1899 — 308 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monsieur Beaucaire 3.15 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1900 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Booth Tarkington

The Growth Trilogy (3 books)
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3.79 avg rating — 13,176 ratings

Penrod (3 books)
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3.97 avg rating — 2,381 ratings

Quotes by Booth Tarkington (?)

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington

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“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

tags: gossip

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“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

tags: individuality, integrity, style

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Polls

September 2023 New School Classics Poll

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, 1976, 281 pages

54 votes, 22.0%

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, 1980, 160 pages

53 votes, 21.6%

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, 1943, 558 pages

34 votes, 13.9%

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, 1955, 200 pages

33 votes, 13.5%

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington, 1918, 288 pages

33 votes, 13.5%

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 1994, 534 pages

25 votes, 10.2%

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley, 1953, 326 pages

13 votes, 5.3%

245 total votes

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