Booth Tarkington American novelist also a dramatist known for his novels and books. He and three others won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, with William Faulkner and John Updike. Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He first went to Shortridge high school at Indianapolis, Indiana. Completed his college education at Phillips Exeter Academy a boarding school on the East Coast. He attended Purdue University for four semesters where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the university's Morley Eating Club. When he later got money and made a name for himself He later made a lot of donations to Purdue for building an all-men's residence hall, which the university named Tarkington Hall in his honor.…show more content… According to Triangle's official history, Booth Tarkington made his first acting appearance in the club's Shakespearean spoof Katherine. This was one of the first three productions in the Triangle's history that was written and produced by Princeton students. Tarkington established this Triangle tradition for productions of student’s plays, and it remains to this day. Tarkington returned to the Triangle as Cassius in the 1893 production The Honorable Julius Caesar. He gained respect that year at Princeton as a co-author of the play. In his role as a founding member of The Triangle Club, he was also the earliest members of the Ivy Club, the first of Princeton's Eating Clubs. He edited the Princeton's Nassau Literary Magazine, known as The Nassau Lit. His place within campus society was already determined, and he was voted "most popular" by the class of 1893. In his adult life, he was twice asked to return to Princeton for the conferral of honorary degrees. The conferral of more than one honorary degree of Princeton University remains a university record. While Tarkington never earned a college degree, he was accorded many awards recognizing and honoring his skills and accomplishments as an author. He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction twice, in 1919 and
