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Booth Tarkington

1869 - 1946

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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 (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Booth Tarkington is the 5,677th most popular writer (up from 5,875th in 2019), the 9,222nd most popular biography from United States (up from 9,286th in 2019) and the 679th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Booth Tarkington ranks 5,677 out of 7,302. Before him are Johan Theorin, Delphine de Vigan, Walter Anderson, Richard Llewellyn, Mary L. Trump, and Nicholas Culpeper. After him are Charlotte von Ahlefeld, Gregório de Matos, William Michael Rossetti, Nahum Tate, Emine Semiye Önasya, and Charles Allston Collins.

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Among people born in 1869, Booth Tarkington ranks 145. Before him are Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, William Murrill, Albert Engström, Stephen Leacock, and Bill Haywood. After him are Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf, Harry Stafford, Charley Grapewin, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Bertha Townsend, and Robert S. Woodworth. Among people deceased in 1946, Booth Tarkington ranks 206. Before him are León Cortés Castro, Ferdinand Boberg, João Sassetti, Mary Alden, Vincent Youmans, and Joseph Stella. After him are Adriaan van Maanen, Lucina Hagman, Paul Nash, Elvira Notari, Eduard Bass, and Florence Fuller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Booth Tarkington ranks 9,224 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary L. Trump (1965), Ray Anthony (1922), Peter Jurasik (1950), Erykah Badu (1971), Bob Menendez (1954), and Bill Haywood (1869). After him are Betty Bronson (1906), Larry Van Kriedt (1954), Meg Whitman (1956), Robert Brandom (1950), Michael Hayden (1945), and Don Patinkin (1922).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Booth Tarkington ranks 679. Before him are Grace Paley (1922), Scott O'Dell (1898), Avram Davidson (1923), Louise Erdrich (1954), Daniel Quinn (1935), and Mary L. Trump (1965). After him are Frank Belknap Long (1901), T. C. Boyle (1948), Amiri Baraka (1934), Madeleine L'Engle (1918), Christopher Paolini (1983), and Gwendolyn Brooks (1917).

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