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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) 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 .
Rose Briar is a 1922 play by Booth Tarkington. It is a three-act comedy with two settings and eleven characters. It is a three-act comedy with two settings and eleven characters. The story concerns a caberet singer who resists a society woman's efforts to lure her into becoming the other woman in a divorce.
The Country Cousin is a 1917 play by Booth Tarkington and Julian Street, a revised version of their failed 1915 play The Ohio Lady.It is a four-act comedy that skirts melodrama, with three settings and thirteen characters.
The Man from Home is a 1907 play written by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson.It is a comedy with four acts, three settings, and moderate pacing. The story concerns an Indiana lawyer who has travelled to Italy to save his ward from an ill-conceived marriage.
Seventeen is a 1917 play by writers Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Stannard Mears, and Stuart Walker, based on Booth Tarkington's 1916 novel. It is a four-act comedy with six scenes and two settings. It is a four-act comedy with six scenes and two settings.
The Turmoil is a 1915 novel by American author Booth Tarkington. [1] [2] Written when Tarkington was about 50, it became a #1 bestseller.It deals with the transformation of idealized small town life and the relationship of a father and son. [3]
Civic Theatre's five-show mainstage season includes tributes to beloved literature and classics like "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. [1] It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee [citation needed] and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens. [2]