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Tarkington, Susannah Robinson

American, died 1966

Robinson, Susannah; Keifer, Susannah; Tarkington, Booth Mrs.

Biography

Born Susannah Keifer, she was widowed by her first husband and married secondly to author Booth Tarkington. Novelist and playwright Booth Tarkington was the younger of two children of lawyer and county judge John Stevenson Tarkington and his wife Elizabeth (Booth) Tarkington. Tarkington spent one term in the Indiana state legislature (1902-1903), but his principle ambition and career was as a writer. In 1899 he published his first successful novel, The Gentleman From Indiana, followed in 1900 by Monsieur Beaucaire, a popular historical romance. A prolific writer, Tarkington's books totalled more that forty-five. His greatest public and critical successes were in the years 1914-1924, when he wrote his best-known books: Penrod (1914), Penrod and Sam (1916), Seventeen (1916), and Gentle Julia (1922. His two Pulitzer Prize novels, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921) also date from this time. Tarkington married twice, firstly to Laurel Louisa Fletcher, of Indianapolis, on 18 June 1902. This marriage ended in divorce, and Tarkington married secondly to Susannah. Tarkington's only child, Laurel, was born in 1906 and died at the age of seventeen. Susannah died in 1966 at the age of 95. [Excerpted from Tarkington's entry in DAB Supplement Four: 815-817]

Bibliography

1933
DAB, Supplement Four, 1943: 815-817 [entry on Booth Tarkington]
1966
The New York Times. 13 January 1966: 25 [obituary]

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