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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 543,060 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Booth Tarkington is the 5,609th most popular writer (down from 5,081st in 2019), the 9,776th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,228th in 2019) and the 745th most popular American Writer.

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  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Booth Tarkington ranks 5,609 out of 5,755. Before him are Naja Marie Aidt, Michael Parenti, John Toll, Alice Sebold, Alyson Noël, and Alain LeRoy Locke. After him are David Halberstam, Kristina Brenk, Ahmad NikTalab, Henry Lawson, Paulina Chiziane, and Ravindra Prabhat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Booth Tarkington ranks 138. Before him are Stephen Leacock, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Bertha Townsend, Ellen Hansell, and Charley Grapewin. After him are John Kunkel Small, Joshua Pim, Tom Kiely, and William Murrill. Among people deceased in 1946, Booth Tarkington ranks 196. Before him are Kate Bruce, Vincent Youmans, Harlan F. Stone, Adriaan van Maanen, Edgar Syers, and Lionel Atwill. After him are John Langalibalele Dube, Jeanie MacPherson, João Sassetti, Miles Mander, Helen Bannerman, and Florence Turner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Booth Tarkington ranks 9,776 out of 18,182. Before him are Florence La Badie (1888), Elliot Richardson (1920), Alma Bennett (1904), Leonidas Polk (1806), Sleepy John Estes (1899), and James Rector (1884). After him are Sid Grauman (1879), Marion Leonard (1881), Sofia Carson (1993), Peyton Randolph (1721), David Halberstam (1934), and Susan Dey (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Booth Tarkington ranks 745. Before him are Harry Turtledove (1949), Michael Parenti (1933), John Toll (1952), Alice Sebold (1963), Alyson Noël (1965), and Alain LeRoy Locke (1885). After him are David Halberstam (1934), Madeline Miller (1978), Edward Everett Hale (1822), Sarah J. Maas (1986), Kenneth Rexroth (1905), and John Perry Barlow (1947).

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