Tarkington

American  

[tahr-king-tuhn] / ˈtɑr kɪŋ tən /

noun

1. (Newton) Booth, 1869–1946, U.S. novelist and playwright.

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Tarkington British  

/ ˈtɑːkɪŋtən /

noun

1. ( Newton ) Booth . 1869–1946, US novelist. His works include the historical romance Monsieur Beaucaire (1900), tales of the Middle West, such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921), and the series featuring the character Penrod

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Example Sentences

Before him, only Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner and John Updike had won the Pulitzer for fiction twice.

From BBC • May 4, 2020

The novelist Booth Tarkington, another Hoosier, insisted on Willkie’s genuineness, whereas Irving Stone saw “a man with a great potential for good and an equal potential for confusion and opportunism.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

Manning, who came into Sunday’s 27-23 victory over Baltimore with just five touchdowns this season, is some way behind No6, Fran Tarkington, who has 342.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2016

It’s a nose-pressed-against-the-window peek at the patrician class — not the superrich, but the privileged, well-bred WASPs who inspired Booth Tarkington novels and, later, J. Crew catalogs.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2012

Adolescence, however, when left to itself, has other and very different hours which Mr. Tarkington shows almost no signs of comprehending.

From Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Doren, Carl Van