Booth Tarkington

American novelist.

Born July 29th, 1869 in Indianapolis. [ref]

Died May 19th, 1946 at 76 years old in Indianapolis. [ref]

Occupations
children's writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, writer
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde