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2 unusual facts about Booth Tarkington


Carl Ed

He drew samples for a strip titled Seventeen, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel Seventeen.

Frederick Emerson Peters

Over the following years he impersonated real people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Booth Tarkington and Gifford Pinchot II.


Billy and Bobby Mauch

The twins later starred in three films based on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.

Brick Store Museum

Additional highlights are the collections pertaining to renowned Maine-based authors Sarah Orne Jewett, Kenneth Roberts, and Booth Tarkington.

Edward Rose

He is sometimes confused or conflated with Edward Everett Rose (1862–1939), an American dramatist also known for dramatizing novels, notably Richard Carvel and the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington.

International Fortean Organization

The original society included many of New York's literati including Booth Tarkington, Ben Hecht, Clarence Darrow, Alexander Woollcott and Dorothy Parker.

Penrod Jashber

Penrod Jashber is the third in a series of collections of sketches by Booth Tarkington about the adventures of Penrod Schofield, an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States.

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for the novel.


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