WRITER

Booth Tarkington

1869 - 1946

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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Booth Tarkington has received more than 592,252 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Booth Tarkington is the 5,876th most popular writer (down from 5,589th in 2019), the 9,290th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,754th in 2019) and the 704th most popular American Writer.

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  • 51.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Booth Tarkington ranks 5,876 out of 7,302. Before him are John Wain, José Gil Fortoul, Isabel-Clara Simó, David Garnett, Justine Siegemund, and Patrick Rambaud. After him are Stephen Leacock, Mark Strand, Gen Urobuchi, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Kazimierz Brodziński, and Eric Van Lustbader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Booth Tarkington ranks 144. Before him are Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Albert Engström, Bill Haywood, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gerrit Smith Miller, and Zaida Ben-Yusuf. After him are Stephen Leacock, William Murrill, Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Tom Kiely, and George Caridia. Among people deceased in 1946, Booth Tarkington ranks 213. Before him are Vincent Youmans, Ivan Moskvin, James Cecil Parke, Eduard Bass, Paul Nash, and João Sassetti. After him are Lucina Hagman, Jeanie MacPherson, George Cloutier, Harlan F. Stone, Lionel Atwill, and Florence Turner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Booth Tarkington ranks 9,290 out of 20,380. Before him are Terry Kath (1946), Fritz Weaver (1926), Terry Branstad (1946), Scott Gorham (1951), George Adams (1940), and Robert Surtees (1906). After him are Ethan Phillips (1955), George Steinbrenner (1930), Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (1963), Herbert Stothart (1885), John Oliver Creighton (1943), and John Anderson (1907).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Booth Tarkington ranks 704. Before him are Judy Blume (1938), Daniel Goldhagen (1959), Eldridge Cleaver (1935), Tony Hillerman (1925), Joan D. Vinge (1948), and Archibald MacLeish (1892). After him are Eric Van Lustbader (1946), R. A. Lafferty (1914), Lyman Abbott (1835), Albert Maltz (1908), John Jakes (1932), and Thomas Berger (1924).

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