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Booth Tarkington (1869–1946)

Auteur van The Magnificent Ambersons

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Newton Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 29, 1869. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, than spent his first two years of college at Purdue University and his last two at Princeton University. When his class graduated in 1893, he lacked sufficient credits for a toon meer degree. Upon leaving Princeton, he returned to Indiana determined to pursue a career as a writer. Tarkington was an early member of The Dramatic Club, founded in 1889, and often wrote plays and directed and acted in its productions. After a five-year apprenticeship full of publishers' rejection slips, Tarkington enjoyed a huge commercial success with The Gentleman from Indiana, which was published in 1899. He produced a total of 171 short stories, 21 novels, 9 novellas, and 19 plays along with a number of movie scripts, radio dramas, and even illustrations over the course of a career that lasted from 1899 until his death in 1946. His novels included Monsieur Beaucaire, The Flirt, Seventeen, Gentle Julia, and The Turmoil. He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1919 and 1922 for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He used the political knowledge he acquired while serving one term in the Indiana House of Representatives in the short story collection In the Arena. In collaboration with dramatist Harry Leon Wilson, Tarkington wrote The Man from Home, the first of many successful Broadway plays. He wrote children's stories in the final phase of his career. He died on May 19, 1946 after an illness. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) 1,622 exemplaren
Penrod (1914) 785 exemplaren
Alice Adams (1921) 513 exemplaren
Penrod and Sam (1916) 412 exemplaren
Seventeen (1916) 363 exemplaren
Monsieur Beaucaire (1900) 214 exemplaren
The Gentleman from Indiana (1902) 126 exemplaren
Image of Josephine (1945) 110 exemplaren
The Turmoil (1915) 106 exemplaren
Penrod Jashber (1915) 94 exemplaren
Penrod: His Complete Story (1931) 79 exemplaren
The Two Vanrevels (1902) 75 exemplaren
The Plutocrat (1927) 71 exemplaren
The Conquest of Canaan (1905) 64 exemplaren
Gentle Julia (1922) 53 exemplaren
The Flirt (1913) 52 exemplaren
Kate Fennigate (1943) 47 exemplaren
Beasley's Christmas Party (1909) 47 exemplaren
Claire Ambler (1928) 46 exemplaren
Mary's Neck (1932) 43 exemplaren
The Guest of Quesnay (1908) 43 exemplaren
The Midlander (1924) 41 exemplaren
Women (1925) 31 exemplaren
His Own People (1907) 31 exemplaren
Little Orvie (1933) 29 exemplaren
Ramsey Milholland (1919) 29 exemplaren
The Beautiful Lady (1905) 27 exemplaren
Rumbin Galleries (1937) 27 exemplaren
Cherry (1903) 24 exemplaren
Young Mrs. Greeley (1929) 22 exemplaren
Presenting Lily Mars (1933) 21 exemplaren
Mirthful Haven (1930) 21 exemplaren
The Man from Home (1908) 16 exemplaren
Harlequin and Columbine (1921) 16 exemplaren
Growth (1927) 13 exemplaren
Your Amiable Uncle (1949) 13 exemplaren
The fighting Littles (1941) 12 exemplaren
The Gibson Upright (2012) 12 exemplaren
The Heritage of Hatcher Ide (1941) 12 exemplaren
Wanton Mally (1932) 11 exemplaren
The World Does Move (1928) 10 exemplaren
Beauty and the Jacobin (1912) 9 exemplaren
Stories (1984) 8 exemplaren
The Show Piece (1947) 8 exemplaren
Looking Forward and Others (1926) 6 exemplaren
Clarence (1921) 6 exemplaren
The ghost story (1922) 5 exemplaren
The Booth Tarkington Collection (2015) 4 exemplaren
The Lorenzo Bunch (2019) 4 exemplaren
The Wren 2 exemplaren
The Spring Concert (1916) 2 exemplaren
Gipsy 1 exemplaar
Little Gentleman 1 exemplaar
Mrs. Protheroe 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Tarkington, Newton Booth
Geboortedatum
1869-07-29
Overlijdensdatum
1946-05-19
Graflocatie
Crown Hill Cemetery, Lot 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Woonplaatsen
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Opleiding
Purdue University
Princeton University
Beroepen
novelist
dramatist
author
writer
legislator
Organisaties
Indiana House of Representatives
Cliff Dwellers
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
William Dean Howells Medal (1945)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1919)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1921)
O. Henry Memorial Award (1931)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1908)
Korte biografie
Newton Booth Tarkington, an enormously prolific novelist, playwright, and short story writer who chronicled urban middle-class life in the American Midwest during the early twentieth century, was born in Indianapolis on July 29, 1869. He was the son of John Stevenson Tarkington, a lawyer, and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. His uncle and namesake, Newton Booth, was a governor of California and later a United States senator. In the essay ‘As I Seem to Me,’ published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1941, Tarkington recalled dictating a story to his sister when he was only six. By the age of sixteen he had written a fourteen-act melodrama about Jesse James. Tarkington was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Purdue University, and Princeton, where his burlesque musical The Honorable Julius Caesar was staged by the Triangle Club. Upon leaving Princeton in 1893 he returned to Indiana determined to pursue a career as a writer.

After a five-year apprenticeship marked by publishers’ rejection slips, Tarkington enjoyed a huge commercial success with The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), a novel credited with capturing the essence of the American heartland. He consolidated his fame with Monsieur Beaucaire (1900), a historical romance later adapted into a movie starring Rudolph Valentino. ‘Monsieur Beaucaire is ever green,’ remarked Damon Runyon. ‘It is a little literary cameo, and we read it over at least once a year.’ The political knowledge Tarkington acquired while serving one term in the Indiana house of representatives informed In the Arena (1905), a collection of short stories that drew praise from President Theodore Roosevelt for its realism. In collaboration with dramatist Harry Leon Wilson, Tarkington wrote The Man from Home (1907), the first of many successful Broadway plays. His comedy Clarence (1919), which Alexander Woollcott praised for being ‘as American as Huckleberry Finn or pumpkin pie,’ helped launch Alfred Lunt on a distinguished career and provided Helen Hayes with an early successful role.

Following a decade in Europe, Tarkington returned to Indianapolis and won a new readership with the publication of The Flirt (1913). The first of his novels to be serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, the book contained authentic characters and themes that paved the way for Penrod (1914), a group of tales drawn from the author’s boyhood memories of growing up in Indiana. The adventures of Penrod Schofield, which Tarkington also chronicled in the sequels Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod Jashber (1929), seized the imagination of young adult readers and invited comparison with Tom Sawyer. Equally successful was Seventeen (1916), a nostalgic comedy of adolescence that subsequently inspired a play, two Broadway musicals, and a pair of film adaptations as well as Tarkington’s sequel novel Gentle Julia (1922).

Tarkington broke new artistic ground with The Turmoil (1915), the first novel in his so-called Growth trilogy documenting the changes in urban life during the era of America’s industrial expansion. William Dean Howells, the father of American realism, praised Tarkington’s vivid depiction of the human misery generated by one man’s worship of bigness and materialism. The Magnificent Ambersons (1918), the second work in the series, earned Tarkington the Pulitzer Prize. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington’s best novel,’ judged Van Wyck Brooks. ‘[It is] a typical story of an American family and town–the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city.’ The Midlander (1924) concludes the trilogy with the story of a real estate developer who is both a creator and a victim of the country’s new wealth.

Tarkington won his second Pulitzer Prize for Alice Adams (1921), a novel often seen as an extension of the Growth trilogy. The unforgettable portrayal of a small-town social climber whose outlandish attempts to snare a rich husband are both poignant and hilarious, Alice Adams was later made into a film starring Katharine Hepburn. Tarkington’s other memorable books of the period include Women (1925), a cycle of amusing stories about the flourishing social life of suburban housewives, and The Plutocrat (1927), a satire of an American millionaire abroad. In addition he turned out The World Does Move (1928), a volume of autobiographical essays, and Mirthful Haven (1930), a serious novel of manners inspired by his many summers in Kennebunkport, Maine.

In the late 1920s, Tarkington commenced a prolonged battle with failing eyesight and near blindness. After undergoing more than a dozen eye operations he regained partial vision, but he was forced to dictate his work to a secretary. His joy at being able once more to see colors maintained a lifelong passion for collecting art. The entertaining stories Tarkington wrote for the Saturday Evening Post about the art business were published as Rumbin Galleries (1937). In addition he completed Some Old Portraits (1939), a book of essays about his collection, which included works by Titian, Velázquez, and Goya.

During the final years of his life Tarkington again focused on Indiana. In The Heritage of Hatcher Ide (1941) he updated the family sagas of the Growth trilogy, while in Kate Fennigate (1943) he offered another social comedy in the spirit of Alice Adams. In 1945 Tarkington was awarded the prestigious Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Booth Tarkington died at his home in Indianapolis following a short illness on May 19, 1946. The Show Piece (1947), his unfinished last novel, profiles a young egoist reminiscent of the George Minafer of The Magnificent Ambersons.

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In this LOA volume, Mr. Tarkington is introduced to the reader. He is all but unknown now though he was certainly known among writers in the 1st 2 decades of the 1900s. His major work "The Magnificent Ambersons" was made into a movie in 1942. His main emphasis was on fictional characters impacted by social & economic issues set in the historical events between the end of the Civil War & before World War 1. This also contains 2 other stories that relate the same type of his writings.
 
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walterhistory | Nov 9, 2023 |
Maybe even 4.5* While I knew most of the plot from watching the excellent film adaptation (1942 directed by Orson Wells and starring Joseph Cotten), it was worthwhile reading the original novel. Tarkington is one of a small handful of authors who have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once and reading this novel, I could understand why.

Wells focused on the family drama in the film (and ended a few chapters short of the book!) but the book shows that Tarkington is more interested in the wider social commentary. Even with this wider focus, his portrayal of a pompous narcissist bully in Georgie Minafer is excellent and the book is worth reading for that alone. Georgie is not a caricature and I liked the fact that Tarkington showed him as human which allowed me to sympathize with him even when he was at his most annoying. Being a sentimentalist at heart, I liked the fact that the book allowed Georgie (now George) to be reprieved and possibly (hopefully) get back together with Lucy Morgan.… (meer)
 
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leslie.98 | 49 andere besprekingen | Jun 27, 2023 |
An arrogant man child can't see past his imperious needs. He is blind to social and economic changes surrounding him. Pulitzer winner.
 
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debbie13410 | 49 andere besprekingen | Jun 18, 2023 |
enjoyable use of language and lively descriptions, but unfortunately, and, now, shockingly, of its era in terms of racism and other prejudices
 
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