Booth Tarkington , whose literary career spanned nearly five decades at the beginning of the twentieth century, was a popular and successful writer of fiction, long and short, and a playwright of some importance. Although he had more talent than most...
Booth Tarkington , novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, best known for his fiction depicting middle-class life in the American Midwest during the early decades of the twentieth century, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of John...
Tarkington is a name, which was used by the Vikings, an ancient Scandinavian people who migrated to England and then to the U.S.. They settled in Maryland, then Virginia, and later moved to Tyrrell County, North Carolina. Later they migirated to Texas...
An occasional column in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. One of the many lamentable ways in which American literature has changed over the past century or so is that our best writers almost never write...
Byline: Cheryl Callas Daily Herald Correspondent As Steven Fisher waits in front of Wheeling's Booth Tarkington School for the first school bus to arrive, one of his third-graders runs up to him anxiously. "Mr. Fisher, they're skating again!" He hustles to the...
Selected home-video releases:"Bobby"Emilio Estevez writes, directs and co-stars with a remarkable cast in a fictionalized drama centered on a group of people at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel the night Robert Kennedy was assassinated there in 1968. The ensemble includes Estevez's father, Martin Sheen, Sharon Stone,...
Nestled in the lush trees of suburban Atlanta's Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve sits the foundation of a school that is being built with partly recycled materials.When it's finished, Arabia Mountain High School will have naturally lit classrooms and an aggressive recycling program.It's part of a...
