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Booth Tarkington
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substantial donations to Purdue for the building of an all-men’s residence hall, which the university named Tarkington Hall,in his honor. It also awarded him an honorary degree.[2] At Princeton, Tarkington was active as a student-actor in what is now known as "The Triangle Club." According to Triangle’s official history,[3] Tarkington made his first acting appearance in the club’s Shapespearean spoof "Katherine" (this was one of the first three productions in the Club’s history that was written and produced by Princeton students, a tradition maintained to the present day). Tarkington returned to the Triangle stage as Cassius in the 1893 production "The Honorable Julius Caesar." Tarkington gained prominence that year at Princeton as a co-author of the play, and as the President of Princeton’s Dramatic Association (the name of the club before it was officially changed to "The Triangle Club"). In addition to his membership in and role as founder of The Triangle Club, he was also a member of the Ivy Club, the first of Princeton’s historic Eating Clubs. At Princeton he also edited the "Nassau Literary Magazine". Tarkington failed to earn his undergraduate degree, the A.B., due to a single missing course in the classics. Nevertheless, his place within campus society was already determined, as he was voted most popular in the class for 1893. In his adult life, he was asked to return to Princeton on two occasions for the conferral of two honorary degrees, an A.M. in 1899 and a Litt.D. in 1918. The conferral of more than one honorary degree on an alumnus at Princeton University remains a record for the institution. Many aspects of Tarkington’s Princeton years forecast those of the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald who, while an undergraduate nearly 25 years later, also reveled in the literary arts and socialized in the Eating Clubs of Prospect Avenue, but failed to earn his degree as well. In 1902 Tarkington became a Republican State Representative in the Indiana government. He served one term.[4]
Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869, Indianapolis – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.
Biography
Booth Tarkington was the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington, and named after his maternal uncle Newton Booth, then the governor of California. Tarkington was also related to Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth [1848-1850]. Tarkington first attended Shortridge High School, but completed his secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy, a boarding school on the East Coast.[1] Tarkington attended Purdue University for two years, then transferred to Princeton University for another two years, but never officially graduated from either. Booth Tarkington made
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Tarkington was a world traveller who spent much of his later life in Kennebunkport Maine, and left his papers to Colby College. At the same time, he was also an unabashed Midwestern regionalist, and set much of his fiction in his native Indiana. One of the more popular American novelists of his time, his The Two Vanrevels and Mary’s Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. Tarkington dramatized several of his novels; some were eventually filmed. In 1928, he published a book of reminiscences, The World Does Move. He illustrated the books of others, including a 1933 reprint of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as his own. He took a close interest in fine art and collectibles, and was a trustee of the John Herron Art Museum. In 1902, he served in the Indiana House of Representatives, which supplied the experiences for his book In the Arena: Stories of Political Life. Tarkington was married to Laurel Fletcher from 1902 until their divorce in 1911. Their only child, Laurel was born in 1906 and died in 1923.[5] He married Susanah Keifer Robinson in 1912. They had no children.[6] Tarkington began losing his eyesight in the 1920s and was blind in his later years. He continued producing his works by dictating to a secretary.[7] He lived at 4270 North Meridan in Indianapolis from 1923 until his death.[1] He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Marion County, Indianapolis, Indiana.[8] Much of Tarkington’s work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. He himself came from a patrician family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873 (after a measure of wealth returned, his mother transferred him to Princeton University to complete his education). Today, he is best known for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons, which Orson Welles filmed in 1942. It is included in the Modern Library’s list of top-100 novels. The second volume in Tarkington’s Growth trilogy, it contrasted the decline of the "old money" Amberson dynasty against the rise of "new money" industrial tycoons in the years between the Civil War and World War I.
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Bibliography
Julia; frontispiece of a 1922 New York publication of Gentle Julia, by Booth Tarkington • The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) • Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted as a play, an operetta and two films—1924 and 1946) • Old Grey Eagle (1901) • Cherry (1901 - January, February Harper’s Magazine) (1903 - Book) • The Two Vanrevels (1902) • 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 • In the Arena: Stories of Political Life (1905) • The Beautiful Lady (1905) • The Conquest of Canaan (1905) • The Guest of Quesnay (1907) • His Own People (1907) • Beasley’s Christmas Party (1909) • Your Humble Servant (1910) • Beauty and the Jacobin, an Interlude of the French Revolution (1912) • The Flirt (1913) • Penrod (1914) • The Man from Home (1915) - stage play
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• The Turmoil (1915) (first volume of the trilogy Growth) • Penrod and Sam (1916) • Seventeen (1916) • The Spring Concert (1916) • The Rich Man’s War (1917) • The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1941 by Orson Welles, remade for TV in 2002; second volume of the trilogy Growth) • The Gibson Upright (1919) - stage play • Ramsey Mulholland (1919) • War Stories (1919) - one of Tarkington’s stories was included in this anthology • The Country Cousins: A Comedy in Four Acts (1921) - stage play • Clarence: A Comedy in Four Acts (1921) stage play • Harlequin and Columbine (1921) • Alice Adams (1921; won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize; filmed 1935) • The Intimate Strangers: A Comedy in Three Acts (1921) - stage play • Gentle Julia (1922) • The Wren: A Comedy in Three Acts (1922) - stage play • The Ghost Story (1922) • The Midlander (1924) (1927 re-titled National Avenue; third volume of the trilogy Growth) • Women (1925) • Looking Forward, and Others, consisting of "Looking Forward to the Great Adventure", "Nipskillions", "The Hopeful Pessimist", "Stars in the Dust-heap", "The Golden Age", and "Happiness Now" (1926) • The Plutocrat (1927) • Claire Ambler (1928) • The World Does Move (1928) • Penrod Jashber (1929) • Mirthful Haven (1930) • Mary’s Neck (1932) • Presenting Lily Mars (1933) (filmed 1943) • Rumbin Galleries (1934) - essays on 17th century artworks • Little Orvie (1934) • Some Old Portraits (1939) - essays on 17th century artworks • The Fighting Littles (1941) • The Heritage of Hatcher Ide (1941) • Kate Fennigate (1943) • Image of Josephine (1945) • The Show Piece (1947)
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References
[1] ^ Price, Nelson (2004). Indianapolis Then & Now. San Diego, California: Thunder Bay Press. pp. 122. ISBN 1-59223-208-6. http://books.google.com/ books?id=LGkIAAAACAAJ&dq=Indianapolis+Then+% [2] http://www.housing.purdue.edu/HTML/ HOUSTarkington.htm [3] www.princeton.edu/~triangle/ content_page/history.html [4] http://www.bookrags.com/biography/ newton-booth-tarkington [5] "bookrags.com" [6] http://www.online-literature.com/ tarkington/ [7] "bookrags.com" [8] http://"online-literature.com" ^http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/boothtarkington/
External links
• Works by Booth Tarkington at Project Gutenberg • Works by Booth Tarkington at Internet Archive • Booth Tarkington at the Internet Movie Database • Booth Tarkington at Find A Grave • PoliticalGraveyard.com entry • Bio from Colby College collection of his papers Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Tarkington, Booth Tarkington, Newton Booth American novelist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1869 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States May 19, 1946
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