Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, and graduated Princeton University in 1893. He was one of the most popular American novelists of his time, with The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appearing on the annual best-seller lists nine times.
Bibliography
The Gentleman from Indiana (1899)
Monsieur Beaucaire (1900; later adapted for the stage)
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.
BoothTarkington 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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