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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 · 23,421 ratings · 2,624 reviews · 553 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Magnificent Ambersons 3.79 avg rating — 12,506 ratings — published 1918 — 544 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 — 4,917 ratings — published 1921 — 4 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 — 1,652 ratings — published 1914 — 102 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 — 793 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 4.03 avg rating — 582 ratings — published 1916 — 304 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) 3.90 avg rating — 574 ratings — published 1915 — 242 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 — 337 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 4.16 avg rating — 148 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 — 307 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 — 162 ratings — published 1900 — 147 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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The Growth Trilogy (3 books)
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3.80 avg rating — 13,192 ratings

Penrod (3 books)
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3.96 avg rating — 2,382 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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August 2022 New School Classic Group Read

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 1934, 274 pages

62 votes, 30.7%

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, 1938, 222 pages

37 votes, 18.3%

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1977, 386 pages

29 votes, 14.4%

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966, 288 pages

27 votes, 13.4%

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 1922, 348 pages

16 votes, 7.9%

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, 1963, 564 pages

12 votes, 5.9%

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington, 1918, 288 pages

10 votes, 5.0%

A Cry of Angels by Jeff Fields, 1974, 383 pages

9 votes, 4.5%

202 total votes

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