Document Type
Finding Aids
Publication Date
2015
Collection Date
1910-1949.
Identifier
TARKINGTON.1
Description
This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials relating to the life and work of Booth Tarkington. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was a writer from Indiana, well known for his novels of life in the midwest. Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to him for The Magnificent Ambersons and for Alice Adams. He attended Purdue University and Princeton, where he was a well-known literary and social figure. In later life he divided his time between Indiana and his estate, Seawood, in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he became friends with neighbor Kenneth Roberts.
Recommended Citation
Collection of Booth Tarkington Materials, Colby College Special Collections, Waterville, Maine.
Included in
American Literature Commons, Fiction Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons