Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American

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and

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best known for his novels ''

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'' (1918) and '' Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the

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more than once, along with

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, and

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. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with

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, George Ade, and

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helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. Booth Tarkington served one term in the

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, was critical of the advent of automobiles, and set many of his stories in the Midwest. He eventually moved to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he continued his life work even as he suffered a loss of vision. He is often cited as an example of an author who enjoyed great success when alive, but whose reputation and influence did not survive his death.

Early life and education

Tarkington was born in

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, on July 29, 1869, the son of John S. Tarkington, a judge, and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. He came from a patrician

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family that had lost much of its wealth after the

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. Tarkington was named after his maternal uncle Newton Booth, then the governor of

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. He was also related to

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Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth through Woodworth's wife, Almyra Booth Woodworth. Tarkington attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, and completed his secondary education at

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, a boarding school on the East Coast. He attended

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for two years, where he was a member of the

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fraternity and the university's Morley Eating Club. Some of his family's wealth returned after the Panic of 1873, and his mother transferred Booth from Purdue to

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. At Princeton, Tarkington is said to have been known as "Tark" among the members of the Ivy Club, the first of Princeton's historic eating clubs. He had also been in a short-lived eating club called ''"Ye Plug and Ulster,"'' which became Colonial Club. He was active as an actor and served as president of Princeton's Dramatic Association, which later became the Triangle Club, of which he was a founding member according to Triangle's official history. Tarkington made his first acting appearance in the club's Shakespearean spoof ''Katherine'', one of the first three productions in the Triangle's history written and produced by students. Tarkington established the Triangle tradition, still alive as of 2014, of producing students' plays. Tarkington returned to the Triangle stage as Cassius in the 1893 production of a play he co-authored, ''The Honorable Julius Caesar''. He edited Princeton's ''Nassau Literary Magazine'', known more recently as ''The Nassau Lit''. While an undergraduate, he socialized with

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, an associate graduate member of the Ivy Club. Wilson returned to Princeton as a member of the political science faculty shortly before Tarkington departed; they maintained contact throughout Wilson's life. Tarkington failed to earn his undergraduate A.B. because of missing a single course in the classics. Nevertheless, his place within campus society was already determined, and he was voted "most popular" by the class of 1893.

Career

Tarkington's first successful novel was ''The Gentleman from Indiana'' (1899). In 1902–1903, he served one term as a Republican member of the

, an experience reflected in his 1905 short story collection, ''In The Arena.'' As a novelist, Tarkington was both prolific and commercially successful. During the 15-year period from 1914 to 1928, seven of his novels ranked among the top ten best-selling books of the year: '' Penrod'' (1914), ''The Turmoil'' (#1 best seller of 1915), '' Seventeen'' (#1 best seller of 1916), ''Gentle Julia'' (1922), ''The Midlander'' (1924), ''The Plutocrat'' (1927) and ''Claire Ambler'' (1928). He produced both of his

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-winning novels during the same period. Penrod - cover page

Two of his novels achieved longer-term commercial success. ''Penrod'' was one of a select group of novels that sold more than 750,000 copies during the period 1895–1975, according to ''

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'' book sales data from that period. At one time, his ''Penrod'' series was as well known as ''

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'' by

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. ''Seventeen'', a coming-of-age story, sold some 1.7 million copies during the 1895–1975 period. Although written for an adult audience, it came to be regarded as a children's book and was one of the best-selling books of the era in that category. '' The Two Vanrevels'' and '' Mary's Neck'' appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times. Tarkington authored 25 plays, including three collaborations with Harry Leon Wilson. Some of the plays dramatized his novels. Some were eventually filmed, including '' Monsieur Beaucaire'', '' Presenting Lily Mars'', and '' The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy'', made into a serialized film in 1920 and 1921. In 1928, he published a book of reminiscences, ''The World Does Move''.

Themes

Tarkington was an unabashed

regionalist and set much of his fiction in his native

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. His style has been compared to that of Mark Twain and

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. Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. Themes of the

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and upward social mobility appear frequently in his books.

Awards and recognition

Literary

While Tarkington never earned a college degree, he was accorded many awards recognizing and honoring his skills and accomplishments as an author. He won the

twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his novels ''

'' and '' Alice Adams''. Other achievements include: * Booksellers rated him "the most significant contemporary American author" in a 1921 poll conducted by ''Publishers Weekly''. In 1922, ''

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'' called him America's greatest living author, and ''

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'' selected him as one of the 10 greatest living Americans. * He won the O. Henry Memorial Award in 1931 for his short story " Cider of Normandy". * He was awarded the

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Gold Medal in 1933. * ''The Magnificent Ambersons'', which

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filmed in 1942, is included in the

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's list of the 100 best novels.

Honorary

Tarkington's honorary degrees included an A.M. and a Litt.D. from Princeton, and honorary doctorates from

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and Purdue. He made substantial donations to Purdue for building an all-men's residence hall, which the university named Tarkington Hall in his honor.

Personal life

Tarkington was married to Laura Louisa Fletcher from 1902 until their divorce in 1911. Their only child, Laurel, was born in 1906 and died in 1923. Fletcher, a published poet (and aunt of 1930s gay Hollywood nightclub performer Bruz Fletcher), was involved in adapting his fiction for the stage. Her prosperous Indiana banking family is thought to be the model for certain characters in Tarkington's writing. Tarkington's second marriage was to Susanah Keifer Robinson in 1912. They had no children. Tarkington began losing his eyesight in the 1920s. He continued producing his works by dictating to his secretary Elizabeth Trotter. Despite his failing eyesight, between 1928 and 1940 he edited several historical novels by his Kennebunkport,

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, neighbor Kenneth Roberts, who described Tarkington as a "co-author" of his later books and dedicated three of them (''Rabble in Arms'', ''

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'', and ''Oliver Wiswell'') to him. Tarkington underwent eye surgery in February 1929. In August 1930, he suffered a complete loss in his eyesight and was rushed from Maine to Baltimore for surgery on his right eye. He had an additional two operations in the latter half of 1930. In 1931, after five months of blindness, he underwent a fifth and final operation. The surgery resulted in a significant restoration in his eyesight. However, his physical energy was diminished for the remainder of his life. Tarkington maintained a home in his native Indiana at 4270 North Meridian Street in Indianapolis. From 1923 until his death, Tarkington spent summers and then much of his later life in Kennebunkport at his much loved home, ''Seawood''. In Kennebunkport, he was well known as a sailor, and his schooner, the ''Regina'', survived him. ''Regina'' was moored next to Tarkington's boathouse, ''The Floats'', which he also used as his studio. His extensively renovated studio is now the Kennebunkport Maritime Museum. It was from his home in Maine that he and his wife Susannah established their relation with nearby

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Tarkington took a close interest in fine art and collectibles and was a trustee of the John Herron Art Institute. He made a gift of some his papers to Princeton, his alma mater, and his wife Susannah, who survived him by over 20 years, made a separate gift of his remaining papers to Colby College after his death. Purdue University's library holds many of his works in its Special Collection's Indiana Collection. Indianapolis commemorates his impact on literature and the theatre, and his contributions as a Midwesterner and "son of Indiana" in its Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre. Tarkington died on May 19, 1946, aged 76, in his home in Indianapolis. He was buried in

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Legacy

In the 1910s and 1920s, Tarkington was regarded as "the most important and lasting writer of his generation", perhaps as important as

. His works were reprinted many times, were often on best-seller lists, won many prizes, and were adapted into other media. ''Penrod'' and its two sequels were regular birthday presents for bookish boys. By the later twentieth century, however, he was ignored in academia: no congresses, no society, no journal of ''Tarkington Studies.'' In 1981, The Avenue (Penguin) Companion to English and American Literature described him as "the epitome of the middle-brow American novelist." In 1985, he was cited as an example of the great discrepancy possible between an author's fame when alive and oblivion later. According to this view, if an author succeeds at pleasing his or her contemporaries—and Tarkington's works have not a whiff of social criticism—he or she is not going to please later readers of inevitably different values and concerns. In 2004, author and critic Thomas Mallon noted: "Entirely absent from most current histories of American writing, Tarkington was generally scorned by those published just before or after his death." In 2019,

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wrote that Tarkington "dwindled into America's most distinguished hack." Gottlieb criticized Tarkington's anti-modernist perspective, "his deeply rooted, unappeasable need to look longingly backward, an impulse that goes beyond nostalgia," for preventing him from "producing so little of real substance." Mallon wrote of Tarkington that "only general ignorance of his work has kept him from being pressed into contemporary service as a literary

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—not just a 'conservationist,' in the mode, but an emerald-Green decrier of internal combustion":

The automobile, whose production was centered in Indianapolis before World War I, became the snorting, belching villain that, along with soft coal, laid waste to Tarkington's Edens. His objections to the auto were aesthetic—in ''The Midlander'' (1923) automobiles sweep away the more beautifully named " phaetons" and "surreys"—but also something far beyond that. Dreiser, his exact Indiana contemporary, might look at the Model T and see wage slaves in need of unions and sit-down strikes; Tarkington saw pollution, and a filthy tampering with human nature itself. "No one could have dreamed that our town was to be utterly destroyed," he wrote in ''The World Does Move''. His important novels are all marked by the soul-killing effects of smoke and asphalt and speed, and even in ''Seventeen'', Willie Baxter fantasizes about winning Miss Pratt by the rescue of precious little Flopit from an automobile's rushing wheels.

In June 2019, the

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published ''Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories'', collecting ''The Magnificent Ambersons'', ''Alice Adams'', and ''In the Arena: Stories of Political Life''.

Works

Trilogies

Penrod

# '' Penrod'' (1914) # '' Penrod and Sam'' (1916) # '' Penrod Jashber'' (1929) Two film musicals were loosely based on the ''Penrod'' series, '' On Moonlight Bay'' (1951) and its sequel, '' By the Light of the Silvery Moon'' (1954), with

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and Gordon MacRae.

Growth

# '' The Turmoil'' (1915) # ''

'' (1918)
Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize
Adapted for a 1942 film by

and a 2002 television movie # ''The Midlander'' (1923, re-titled ''National Avenue'' in 1927)

Novels

* ''The Gentleman from Indiana'' (1899) * '' Monsieur Beaucaire'' (1900) ** Later adapted as a play, an operetta and two films: 1924 and

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* ''Old Gray Eagle'' (1901) * ''The Two Vanrevels'' (October 1902) * ''Cherry'' (October 1903) ** Serialized in ''

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'', January and February 1901 * ''In the Arena'' (January 1905) * ''The Beautiful Lady'' (May 1905) * ''The Conquest of Canaan'' (October 1905) * ''His Own People'' (October 1907) * ''The Guest of Quesnay'' (1908) * ''Beasley's Christmas Party'' (October 1909) * ''Beauty and the Jacobin, an Interlude of the French Revolution'' (1912) * ''The Flirt'' (1913) ** Adapted for film in 1922 and has since been lost. * '' Seventeen'' (1916) * ''The Spring Concert'' (1916) * ''The Rich Man's War'' (1917) * ''Ramsey Milholland'' (1919) * '' Alice Adams'' (1921) ** Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize
Adapted for film in

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and

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* '' Gentle Julia'' (1922) ** Filmed in

and

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* ''Women'' (1925) * ''The Plutocrat'' (1927) * ''Claire Ambler'' (1928) * ''The World Does Move'' (1928) * ''Mirthful Haven'' (1930) * ''Mary's Neck'' (1932) * ''Presenting Lily Mars'' (1933) ** Adapted for film in

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* ''Rumbin Galleries'' (1934, romantic novel) * ''Little Orvie'' (1934) * ''Horse and Buggy Days'' (1936) ** Appeared in ''

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'', September 1936 * ''The Lorenzo Bunch'' (1936) * ''The Fighting Littles'' (1941) * ''The Heritage of Hatcher Ide'' (1941) * ''Kate Fennigate'' (1943) * ''Image of Josephine'' (1945) * ''The Show Piece'' (1947, posthumously published)

Short story collections

* ''In the Arena: Stories of Political Life'' (1905) * ''The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories'' (1923)

Short stories

* ''War Stories'' (1919, one of Tarkington's stories was included in this anthology)

Collections

* ''Poe's Run: and other poems … to which is appended the book of the chronicles of the Elis'' (1904, co-author, with M'Cready Sykes) * ''Harlequin and Columbine'' (1921)

Non-fiction

* ''What the Victory or Defeat of Germany Means to Every American'' (1917) * ''The Collector's Whatnot'' (1923) * ''Just Princeton'' (1924) * ''Looking Forward, and Others'' (1926)
Contains "Looking Forward to the Great Adventure", "Nipskillions", "The Hopeful Pessimist", "Stars in the Dust-heap", "The Golden Age" and "Happiness Now" * ''The World Does Move'' (1929) * ''Some Old Portraits'' (1939; essays on 17th century artworks) * ''What We've Got to Do'' (1942) * ''Booth Tarkington On Dogs'' (1944) * ''Your Amiable Uncle'' (1949, posthumously published) * ''On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers'' (1959, posthumously published)

Plays

* '' The Man from Home'' (1907, co-written with Harry Leon Wilson) * ''Cameo Kirby'' (1908, one-act play co-written with Harry Leon Wilson) * ''Your Humble Servant'' (1910, co-written with Harry Leon Wilson) * ''The Ohio Lady'' (1916, co-written with Julian Leonard Street, and later reworked into ''The Country Cousin'') * ''Mister Antonio'' (1916) * '' The Country Cousin'' (1917, co-written with Julian Leonard Street) * ''The Gibson Upright'' (1919, co-written with Harry Leon Wilson) * ''Up from Nowhere'' (1919, co-written with Harry Leon Wilson)White Jr., Matthew (December, 1919)
"The Stage"
''Munsey's Magazine''. Vol. LXVIII, No. 3. p. 526. Retrieved September 23, 2024. * '' Clarence'' (1919) * '' Poldekin'' (1920) * '' The Wren'' (1921) * '' The Intimate Strangers'' (1921) * ''The Ghost Story'' (1922) * '' Rose Briar'' (1922) * ''The Trysting Place'' (1923) * ''Bimbo the Pirate'' (1926) * ''Station YYYY'' (1927) * ''The Travellers'' (1927) * ''How's Your Health?'' (1930) * ''Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson'' (1945 radio play, written in 1940)

References

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