Booth Tarkington
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![Booth Tarkington in 1913Frontispiece of Gentle Julia (1922)Booth Tarkington on the cover of Time (December 21, 1925)Lobby card for Bad Sister (1931), a film adaptation of The FlirtFred MacMurray and Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams (1935)Richard Bennett, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Don Dillaway, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)](/Images/godic/202502/15/Booth_Tarkington_cph.3b271211729.jpg")
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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 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 to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.