Author:Newton Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington
(1869–1946)

Newton Booth Tarkington

Works

Novels

• The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) IA
• Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted as a play) IA
• The Two Vanrevels (1902) IA
• In the Arena (1905) IA
• His Own People (1907) IA
• The Guest of Quesnay (1908) IA
• Beasley's Christmas Party (1909)
• Penrod (juvenile fiction)
  • Penrod (1914)
  • Penrod and Sam (1916, sequel to Penrod) (Commons file)
• The Spring Concert (1916) IA (booklet)
• Growth trilogy
  • The Turmoil (1915) IA
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) [Pulitzer Prize]
  • The Midlander (1923) (re-titled National Avenue in 1927)
• Seventeen (1916) (Commons file)
• Alice Adams (1921) (Commons file) (transcription project) [Pulitzer Prize]
• Gentle Julia
• Women (1925)
• The Plutocrat (1927)
• Claire Ambler (1928)
• The World Does Move (1928)

Plays

• The Country Cousin (1921)
• The Ghost Story (1922)
• Magnolia (1923)

Short story collections

• The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories (1923)
• Looking Forward, and Others (1926)

Works from magazines

• "The Old Gray Eagle" Everybody's Magazine, 1901 July (ss)
• "A Vatican Sermon" (1904, Harper's) short story
• "Lord Jerningham" (1905 Dec, Everybody's) short story
• "Beauty and the Jacobin" Harper's Magazine, 1912 (play)
• "Penrod and the Pageant" Everybody's Magazine, 1913 June (ss)
• "The Second Name for Vreedersburgh" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Aug (ss)
• "Brudie's Pickle" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Sept (ss)
• "The Spring Concert" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Oct (ss) [Lucius Brutus Allen]
• "The Horn of Fame" Cosmopolitan, 1916 Oct (ss) [Penrod]
• "Maytime in Marlow" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Nov (ss) [Lucius Brutus Allen]
• "Maud and Bill" Everybody's Magazine, 1916 Dec (ss) [Lucius Brutus Allen]
• "The Only Child" Everybody's Magazine, 1917 Jan (ss) [Lucius Brutus Allen]
• "About America" (1918, St. Nicholas) article
• "Mr. Howells" in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 141 (1920) IA
• "Jeannette" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 May (ss)
• "Laurence and Roger" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 June (ss)
• "The Party" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 July (ss)
• "The Street of Bad Children" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Aug (ss)
• "The Tiger" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Sept (ss)
• "Ladies' Ways" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Oct (ss)
• "Willamilla" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Nov (ss)
• "The Doormat's Revolt" The Red Book Magazine, 1921 Dec (ss)
• "Two Hearts That Beat As One" (1922 Apr, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "You" (1922 Aug, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Renfrew and the New Generation" (1922 June, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Young Love and Younger Crime" (1922 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "The One Hundred Dollar Bill" (1923 Jan, McCall's) short story
• "What Chance Has a Man?" (1923 May, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Here Comes the Bridegroom" (1923 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "'Thea Zell" (1925 April, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Geraldine" (1925 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "The Midlander" illustrated by Frank Street in The Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 41 (1924)

Longer works

• "Foreign Exchange" (1910 Sept, Ainslee's) with Harry Leon Wilson (novella)

Works about Tarkington

• "Tarkington, Newton Booth," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Tarkington, Booth," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
• Review of 'Penrod' in Punch Magazine (August 26th 1914),