Author:Newton Booth Tarkington

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Newton Booth Tarkington
(1869–1946)
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American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, and his comic stories about Penrod. Wrote as Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington

Works

Novels

  • The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) (start transcription)
  • Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted as a play) (start transcription)
  • The Two Vanrevels (1902) (start transcription)
  • Cherry (1903) (start transcription)
  • The Beautiful Lady (1904) (start transcription)
  • The Conquest of Canaan (1905) (start transcription)
  • His Own People (1907) (start transcription)
  • The Guest of Quesnay (1908) (start transcription)
  • Beasley's Christmas Party (1909) (start transcription)
  • The Flirt (1913) (start transcription)
  • Penrod (1914)
  • The Turmoil (1915) (start transcription)
  • Penrod and Sam (1916, sequel to Penrod) (start transcription)
  • Seventeen (1916) (start transcription)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) [Pulitzer Prize] (transcription project)
  • Ramsey Milholland (1919, illustrations by Grant Gordon) (start transcription)
  • Alice Adams (1921) [Pulitzer Prize] (transcription project)
  • Harlequin and Columbine (1922) (start transcription)
  • The Midlander (1923, re-titled National Avenue in 1927)
  • Gentle Julia (start transcription)
  • Women (1925) (start transcription)
  • The Plutocrat (1927)
  • Claire Ambler (1928)
  • The World Does Move (1928) (start transcription)
  • Penrod Jashber (1929) (start transcription)
  • Mirthful Haven (1930)
  • Mary's Neck (1932)
  • Presenting Lily Mars (1933)
  • Rumbin Galleries (1934)
  • Little Orvie (1934)
  • Horse and Buggy Days (1936)
  • The Lorenzo Bunch (1936)
  • The Fighting Littles (1941)
  • The Heritage of Hatcher Ide (1941)
  • Kate Fennigate (1943)
  • Image of Josephine (1945)
  • The Show Piece (1947)

Non-fiction

  • Just Princeton: The Place and Idea (1924, contains "Looking Forward to the Great Adventure", "Nipskillions", "The Hopeful Pessimist", "Stars in the Dust-heap", "The Golden Age" and "Happiness Now")
  • Some Old Portraits (1939; essays on 17th century artworks)
  • What We've Got to Do (1942)
  • Booth Tarkington On Dogs (1944)
  • Your Amiable Uncle (1949)
  • On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers: Selections from the Letters of Booth Tarkington to George C. Tyler and John Peter Toohey, 1918–1925 (1959)

Plays

  • Cameo Kirby (1908, with Harry Leon Wilson)
  • The Man from Home (1908, with Harry Leon Wilson) (start transcription)
  • Your Humble Servant (1910, with Harry Leon Wilson)
  • Beauty and the Jacobin (1912, published in Harper's Magazine) (start transcription)
  • The Ohio Lady (1916, with Julian Leonard Street, later re-written as The Country Cousin)
  • Mister Antonio (1916)
  • The Gibson Upright (1919, with Harry Leon Wilson) (start transcription)
  • Up from Nowhere (1919, with Harry Leon Wilson)
  • Poldekin (1920)
  • The Country Cousin (1921) (start transcription)
  • The Wren (1921) (start transcription)
  • Clarence (1921) (start transcription)
  • The Intimate Strangers (1921) (start transcription)
  • Rose Briar (1922)
  • The Ghost Story (1922) (start transcription)
  • Magnolia (1923)
  • The Trysting Place (1923) (start transcription)
  • Bimbo the Pirate (1924, published in Ladies' Home Journal June 1924) (start transcription)
  • Station YYYY (1926, published in Ladies' Home Journal, May 1926) (start transcription)
  • The Travelers (1927) (start transcription)
  • How's Your Health? (1930)
  • Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson (written 1940, dramatized as a radio play 1945)

Short story collections

Works from magazines

Others

  • Samuel Brohl and Company (1902, translation from the French by Victor Cherbuliez, introduction by Tarkington) (start transcription)
  • Poe's Run and Other Poems (1904, written by M'Cready Sykes, with illustrations by Tarkington) (start transcription)
  • The Spring Concert (1916, booklet) (start transcription)
  • "What the Victory or Defeat of Germany Means to Every American" (1917 in Shurter's Patriotic Selections for Supplementary Reading) (start transcription)
  • The Name of Old Glory: Poems of Patriotism (1917, by James Whitcomb Riley with an introduction by Tarkington) (start transcription)
  • Literature in the Making (1917, authors discussing the state of literature and publishing (start transcription))
  • War Stories (1919, short story anthology that includes Tarkington's "Captain Schlotterwere") (start transcription)
  • R.H.D.: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis By Various Authors of Some Repute (1917) IA, about Richard Harding Davis, includes one contribution by Tarkington
  • The Collector's Whatnot (1923, a humor book written with Hugh Kahler and Kenneth L. Roberts under pseudonyms) (start transcription)

Works about Tarkington

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1946, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 78 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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