Novelist Booth Tarkington

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Booth Tarkington

Living place: Indianapolis

Birthday: 29-7-1869

Global rank: #44657

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Who is Novelist Booth Tarkington?
A Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most popular novelists of his time, he wrote The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. His other works include Clarence: Clarence. A Comedy in Four Cases (play) and Penrod Jashber (short story)
His famous work, Alice Adams-- the story of a lower middle class women's struggle to find a suitable husband -- won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He briefly attended Purdue University and went on to study at Princeton. During the 1900s, he served in the Indiana House of Representatives.

Family life info

He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and is a distant relative of Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth.

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He is the third writer, after William Faulkner and John Updike, to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

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When was Novelist Booth Tarkington born?
Booth Tarkington was born in 29-7-1869, death year is , at the age of 155.
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Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana- United States. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Booth Tarkington's global rank is 44657 and whose rank is 308 in list of famous Novelist.
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Birthday Booth Tarkington (29-7) in history

  • Day 29-7 year 1890: Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France.
  • Day 29-7 year 1958: President Eisenhower signed the congressional act that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by Congress.
  • Day 29-7 year 1968: In Humanae Vitae (of Human Life), Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic Church's prohibition on artificial methods of birth control.
  • Day 29-7 year 1981: Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, married Lady Diana Spencer.
  • Day 29-7 year 2003: Red sox switch hitter Bill Mueller became the first baseball player to hit grand slam home runs from both sides of the plate in the same game.
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