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BOOTH TARKINGTON COLLECTION, CA. 1850-1979 (1262 words) |
 | Tarkington called her home “Barley Bright.” In 1972 Barley Bright was destroyed due to the construction of an interstate highway through the neighborhood where Barely Bright stood. |
| Because of Tarkington’s failing eyesight most of his correspondence in his later years is written in pencil on large yellow sheets which were apparently easier for him to see. |
| Susanah Tarkington to Josephine Jameson, 1945, 1965, n.d. |
| Tarkington: Biographical Overview (767 words) |
| Booth Tarkington was a popular author from Indiana whose most famous works were published between 1899 and 1921. |
| Tarkington's social realism makes his novels interesting from a historian's point of view because of his concrete observations about middle-class life during the gilded age and progressive era. |
| Tarkington was not a progressive in the sense of being a political reformer. |
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