Nigel Dennis
British writer
Newton Booth Tarkingtonwas an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersonsand 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.
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About the Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkingtonwas an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersonsand 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. 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 Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.
Booth Tarkington served one term in the Indiana House of Representatives, 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 a great success when alive, whose reputation and influence did not survive his death.
7 Quotes by Booth Tarkington
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist (1869-1946)
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist (1869-1946)
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her – especially if that is what she desires.
Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist (1869-1946)
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist (1869-1946)
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist (1869-1946)
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist (1869-1946)
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist (1869-1946)