He attended both Purdue and Princeton (where he became friends with Woodrow Wilson). He was named after a Governor of California (Newton Booth). Curiously, his most famous novel (besides perhaps Penrod), Pulitzer Prize winner The Magnificent Ambersons (1918), did not make the list, and neither did his other Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Adams (1921), though doubtless both sold well enough.īooth Tarkington (1869-1946) was born in Indianapolis, and was a lifelong partisan of Indiana (his first novel was called The Gentleman from Indiana). He had the bestselling novel overall in 1915 ( The Turmoil) and 1916 ( Seventeen), and he also was in the top ten in 1902 ( The Two Vanrevels), 1922 ( Gentle Julia), 1924 ( The Midlander), 1927 ( The Plutocrat), 1928 ( Claire Ambler), and 1932 ( Mary's Neck). Booth Tarkington was a very successful writer, and showed up on that list a lot. Here is a true Old Bestseller, despite being to some extent a children's book: Penrod was #7 on the Publishers' Weekly list of bestselling novels of 1914. Old Bestseller: Penrod, by Booth Tarkington
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