The Magnificent Ambersons.
Booth Tarkington Quotes
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
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| Birth: | 29th July, 1869 |
| Death: | 19th May, 1946 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
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Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was an American novelist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is, with William Faulkner and John Updike, one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. In his adult life, he was twice asked to return to Princeton for the conferral of honorary degrees, an A.M. in 1899 and a Litt.D. in 1918. While Tarkington never earned a college degree, he was accorded many awards recognizing and honoring his skills and accomplishments as an author.
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