Booth Tarkington, Collection

Booth Tarkington ( 1869 – 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. In 1921 booksellers rated him "the most significant contemporary American author" in a poll conducted by Publishers' Weekly. He won the O. Henry Memorial Award in 1931 for this short story "Cider of Normandy". His works appeared frequently on best sellers lists throughout his life. In addition to his honorary doctorate from Purdue, and his honorary masters and doctorate from Princeton, Tarkington was awarded an honorary doctorate from Columbia University, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prize, and several other universities.

In this ebook:

The Magnificent Ambersons

Penrod

Penrod and Sam

Alice Adams

Seventeen, A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William

The Two Vanrevels

The Turmoil

The Gentleman From Indiana

The Conquest of Canaan

The Beautiful Lady

Beasley's Christmas Party

Ramsey Milholland

His Own People

Monsieur Beaucaire

Harlequin and Columbine

In the Arena, Stories of Political Life

The Guest of Quesnay

Gentle Julia

The Flirt