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==Works== {{multiple image <!-- Essential parameters --> | align = right | direction = vertical | width = 220 <!-- Image 1 --> | image1 =Booth Tarkington cph.3b27121.jpg | alt1 = | caption1 =Booth Tarkington in 1913 <!-- Image 2 --> | image2 =Gregory Kelly and Ruth Gordon (SAYRE 11967).jpg | alt2 = | caption2 =Gregory Kelly and [[Ruth Gordon]] in Tarkington's 1919 play ''Clarence'' <!-- Image 3 --> | image3 =Gentle Julia - Booth Tarkington - Project Gutenberg eText 18259.jpg | alt3 = | caption3 =Frontispiece of ''[[Gentle Julia (novel)|Gentle Julia]]'' (1922) <!-- Image 4 --> | image4 =Booth-Tarkington-TIME-1925.jpg | alt4 = | caption4 =Booth Tarkington on the cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (December 21, 1925) <!-- Image 5 --> | image5 =Bad Sister poster.jpg | alt5 = | caption5 =Lobby card for ''[[Bad Sister (1931 film)|Bad Sister]]'' (1931), a film adaptation of ''The Flirt'' <!-- Image 6 --> | image6 =Hepburn Alice Adams.jpg | alt6 = | caption6 =[[Fred MacMurray]] and [[Katharine Hepburn]] in ''[[Alice Adams (1935 film)|Alice Adams]]'' (1935) <!-- Image 7 --> | image7 =The-Magnificent-Ambersons-1.jpg | alt7 = | caption7 =[[Richard Bennett (actor)|Richard Bennett]], [[Joseph Cotten]], [[Dolores Costello]], [[Don Dillaway]], [[Agnes Moorehead]] and [[Ray Collins (actor)|Ray Collins]] in [[Orson Welles]]'s ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons (film)|The Magnificent Ambersons]]'' (1942) }} ===Trilogies=== ====Penrod==== # 1914: ''[[Penrod]]'' # 1916: ''[[Penrod and Sam (novel)|Penrod and Sam]]'' # 1929: ''[[Penrod Jashber]]'' Two film musicals were loosely based on the ''Penrod'' series, ''[[On Moonlight Bay (film)|On Moonlight Bay]]'' (1951) and its sequel, ''[[By the Light of the Silvery Moon (film)|By the Light of the Silvery Moon]]'' (1954), with [[Doris Day]] and [[Gordon MacRae]]. ====Growth==== # 1915: ''[[The Turmoil (novel)|The Turmoil]]'' # 1918: ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons]]''<br>Winner of the [[1919 Pulitzer Prize]]<br>Adapted for a [[The Magnificent Ambersons (film)|1942 film]] by [[Orson Welles]] and a [[The Magnificent Ambersons (2002 film)|2002 television movie]] # 1923: ''The Midlander'' (re-titled ''National Avenue'' in 1927) ===Novels=== * 1899: ''The Gentleman from Indiana'' * 1900: ''[[Monsieur Beaucaire (novel)|Monsieur Beaucaire]]'' ** Later adapted as a play, [[Monsieur Beaucaire (operetta)|an operetta]] and two films: [[Monsieur Beaucaire (1924 film)|1924]] and [[Monsieur Beaucaire (1946 film)|1946]] * 1901: ''Old Gray Eagle'' * October 1902: ''The Two Vanrevels'' * October 1903: ''Cherry'' ** Serialized in ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', January and February 1901 * January 1905: ''In the Arena'' * May 1905: ''The Beautiful Lady'' * October 1905: ''The Conquest of Canaan'' * October 1907: ''His Own People'' * 1908: ''The Guest of Quesnay'' * October 1909: ''Beasley's Christmas Party'' * 1912: ''Beauty and the Jacobin, an Interlude of the French Revolution'' * 1913: ''The Flirt'' ** Adapted for film in [[The Flirt (1922 film)|1922]] and has since been lost. * 1916: ''[[Seventeen (Tarkington novel)|Seventeen]]'' * 1916: ''The Spring Concert'' * 1917: ''The Rich Man's War'' * 1919: ''Ramsey Milholland'' * 1921: ''[[Alice Adams (novel)|Alice Adams]]'' ** Winner of the [[1922 Pulitzer Prize]]<br> Adapted for film in [[Alice Adams (1923 film)|1923]] and [[Alice Adams (1935 film)|1935]] * 1922: ''[[Gentle Julia (novel)|Gentle Julia]]'' ** Filmed in [[Gentle Julia (1923 film)|1923]] and [[Gentle Julia (1936 film)|1936]] * 1925: ''Women'' * 1927: ''The Plutocrat'' * 1928: ''Claire Ambler'' * 1928: ''The World Does Move'' * 1930: ''Mirthful Haven'' * 1932: ''Mary's Neck'' * 1933: ''Presenting Lily Mars'' ** Adapted for film in [[Presenting Lily Mars|1943]] * 1934: ''Rumbin Galleries'' (romantic novel) * 1934: ''Little Orvie'' * 1936: ''Horse and Buggy Days'' ** Appeared in ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', September 1936 * 1936: ''The Lorenzo Bunch'' * 1941: ''The Fighting Littles'' * 1941: ''The Heritage of Hatcher Ide'' * 1943: ''Kate Fennigate'' * 1945: ''Image of Josephine'' * 1947: ''The Show Piece'' (posthumously published) === Short story collections === * ''In the Arena: Stories of Political Life'' (1905) * ''The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories'' (1923) ===Short stories=== * 1919: ''War Stories'' (one of Tarkington's stories was included in this anthology) ===Collections=== * 1904: ''Poe's Run: and other poems β¦ to which is appended the book of the chronicles of the Elis'' (co-author, with M'Cready Sykes) * 1921: ''Harlequin and Columbine'' ===Non-fiction=== * ''What the Victory or Defeat of Germany Means to Every American'' (1917) * ''Looking Forward, and Others'' (1926)<br>Contains "Looking Forward to the Great Adventure", "Nipskillions", "The Hopeful Pessimist", "Stars in the Dust-heap", "The Golden Age" and "Happiness Now" * ''The Collector's Whatnot'' (1923) * ''Just Princeton'' (1924) * ''The World Does Move'' (1929) * ''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'' (1959) ===Plays=== * 1907: ''[[The Man from Home (play)|The Man from Home]]'' (co-written with [[Harry Leon Wilson]])<ref name="ct093007">{{cite news |title=News of the Theaters |work=Chicago Tribune |date=September 30, 1907 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=8 |via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> * 1908: ''Cameo Kirby'' (One-act play co-written with Harry Leon Wilson)<ref name="nyt080508">{{cite news |title=George Tyler Home With a Lame Foot |work=The New York Times |date=August 5, 1908 |location=New York, New York |page=5 |via = [[NYTimes.com]]}}</ref> * 1910: ''Your Humble Servant'' (co-written with Harry Leon Wilson) * 1916: ''The Ohio Lady'' (co-written with [[Julian Leonard Street]], and later reworked into ''The Country Cousin'')<ref name="in012516">{{cite news |last=Sayler |first=Oliver M. |title=The Man From Home in Skirts |work=The Indianapolis News |date=January 25, 1916 |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |page=8 |via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref name="tr072217">{{cite news |last=Kaufman |first=George S. |title=The Coming Crop of Plays |work=New-York Tribune |date=July 22, 1917 |location=New York, New York |page=29 |via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> * 1916: ''Mister Antonio''<ref name="nyt091916">{{cite news |title=A Tarkington Play with Otis Skinner |work=The New York Times |date=September 19, 1916 |location=New York, New York |page=9 |via = [[NYTimes.com]]}}</ref> * 1917: ''[[The Country Cousin (play)|The Country Cousin]]'' (co-written with Julian Leonard Street)<ref name="nyt090417">{{cite news |title=Civil War in 'The Country Cousin' |work=The New York Times |date=September 4, 1917 |location=New York, New York |page=9 |via = [[NYTimes.com]]}}</ref> * 1919: ''The Gibson Upright'' (co-written with Harry Leon Wilson) * 1919: ''Up from Nowhere'' (co-written with Harry Leon Wilson)<ref>White Jr., Matthew (December, 1919). [https://books.google.com/books?id=fYXZeHOF1IwC&pg=PA526&dq=%22knock-out+surprise%22+%22booth+tarkington%22+%22up+from+nowhere%22 "The Stage"]. ''Munsey's Magazine''. Vol. LXVIII, No. 3. p. 526. Retrieved September 23, 2024.</ref> * 1919: ''[[Clarence (play)|Clarence]]''<ref name="nyt092219">{{cite news |last=Woollcott |first=Alexander |title=The Play |work=The New York Times |date=September 22, 1919 |location=New York, New York |page=8 |via = [[NYTimes.com]]}}</ref> * 1920: ''[[Poldekin]]''<ref name="tr091020">{{cite news |last=Broun |first=Heywood |title=Booth Tarkington Deserts the Drama For Economics |work=New-York Tribune |date=September 10, 1920 |location=New York, New York |page=8 |via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> * 1921: ''[[The Wren (play)|The Wren]]''<ref name="nyt101121">{{cite news |last=Woollcott |first=Alexander |title=The New Play |work=The New York Times |date=October 11, 1921 |location=New York, New York |page=22 |via = [[NYTimes.com]]}}</ref> * 1921: ''[[The Intimate Strangers (play)|The Intimate Strangers]]''<ref name="nyt110821">{{cite news |last=Woollcott |first=Alexander |title=The New Play |work=The New York Times |date=November 8, 1921 |location=New York, New York |page=28 |via = [[NYTimes.com]]}}</ref> * 1922: ''The Ghost Story'' * 1922: ''[[Rose Briar]]''<ref name="tr122622">{{cite news |last=Hammond |first=Percy |title=The Theaters |work=New York Tribune |date=December 26, 1922 |location=New York, New York |page=6 |via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> * 1923: ''The Trysting Place'' * 1926: ''Bimbo the Pirate'' * 1927: ''Station YYYY'' * 1927: ''The Travellers'' * 1930: ''How's Your Health?'' * 1945: ''Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson'' (radio play, written in 1940)
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