Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington, best novels

Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. In this book: The Magnificent Ambersons Penrod Alice Adams