Tarkington
Americannoun
noun
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Before him, only Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner and John Updike had won the Pulitzer for fiction twice.
From BBC ● May 4, 2020
The novelist Booth Tarkington, another Hoosier, insisted on Willkie’s genuineness, whereas Irving Stone saw “a man with a great potential for good and an equal potential for confusion and opportunism.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Tarkington said his church is considering what it means to maintain that open-door policy while having security protocols.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
Manning, who came into Sunday’s 27-23 victory over Baltimore with just five touchdowns this season, is some way behind No6, Fran Tarkington, who has 342.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2016
Tarkington, in "Monsieur Beaucaire," begins the story with a scene over the card table which not only gives the barber-prince his necessary introduction to society but also shows the stuff of which he is made.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
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