Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington Born Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-07-29)July 29, 1869 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Died May 19, 1946(1946-05-19) (aged 76) Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Occupation Novelist and dramatist Years active 1899–1946 Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist 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.