Author:Newton Booth Tarkington

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Newton Booth Tarkington
(1869–1946)
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American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, and his comic stories about Penrod. Wrote as Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington

Works

Novels

  • The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) (start transcription)
  • Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted as a play) IA
  • The Two Vanrevels (1902) IA
  • In the Arena (1905) IA
  • His Own People (1907) IA
  • The Guest of Quesnay (1908) IA
  • Beasley's Christmas Party (1909)
  • Penrod (juvenile fiction)
    • Penrod (1914)
    • Penrod and Sam (1916, sequel to Penrod) (start transcription)
  • The Spring Concert (1916) IA (booklet)
  • Growth trilogy
  • Seventeen (1916) (start transcription)
  • Alice Adams (1921) [Pulitzer Prize]
  • Gentle Julia
  • Women (1925)
  • The Plutocrat (1927)
  • Claire Ambler (1928)
  • The World Does Move (1928)

Plays

  • The Country Cousin (1921)
  • The Ghost Story (1922)
  • Magnolia (1923)

Short story collections

Works from magazines

Others

  • The Name of Old Glory: Poems of Patriotism (1917, by James Whitcomb Riley with an introduction by Tarkington) (start transcription)

Works about Tarkington

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1946, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 78 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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