Editing Booth Tarkington (section)

===Literary===
While Tarkington never earned a college degree, he was accorded many awards recognizing and honoring his skills and accomplishments as an author. He won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his novels ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=1919 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Finalists (Novel) |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1919 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> and ''[[Alice Adams (novel)|Alice Adams]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=1922 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1922 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref>

Other achievements include: 
* Booksellers rated him "the most significant contemporary American author" in a 1921 poll conducted by ''Publishers Weekly''. In 1922, ''[[The Literary Digest]]'' called him America's greatest living author, and ''[[The New York Times]]'' selected him as one of the 10 greatest living Americans.<ref name="claremont">{{cite web |last1=Beer |first1=Jeremy |title=The Magnificent Tarkington |url=https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-magnificent-tarkington/ |website=The Claremont Review of Books |publisher=The Claremont Institute |access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref> 
* He won the [[O. Henry Memorial Award]] in 1931 for his short story "[[Cider of Normandy]]".{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
* He was awarded the [[National Institute of Arts and Letters]] Gold Medal in 1933.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
* ''The Magnificent Ambersons'', which [[Orson Welles]] filmed in 1942, is included in the [[Modern Library]]'s list of the 100 best novels.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 100 Best Novels |url=https://sites.prh.com/modern-library-top-100 |website=The Modern Library |publisher=Penguin Random House |access-date=16 August 2023}}</ref>