Tarkington Timeline
- 1869: Birth
- 1873: Silver Panic Bankrupts Family
- 1887: Enrolls at Philips Exeter Academy
- 1890: Matriculates at Purdue
- 1891: Matriculates at Princeton
- 1899: The Gentleman From Indiana
- 1899: Honorary Master’s, Princeton
- 1902: Marries Louisa Fletcher
- 1902: Elected to Indiana State House of Representatives
- 1903: Nearly Dies from Typhoid
- 1903: Recuperates During First Visit to Kennebunkport
- 1905: Seclusion on Capri
- 1906: Laurel’s Birth
- 1908: Membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1911: Divorces Laurel
- 1912: Marries Susanah Kiefer Robinson
- 1913: The Flirt
- 1914: Penrod
- 1916: Seventeen
- 1918: Honorary Doctorate, Princeton
- 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons, Pulitzer Prize
- 1920: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1921: “Most Significant Contemporary American Author” in Publisher’s Weekly bookseller’s poll
- 1922: Alice Adams, Pulitzer Prize
- 1922: “America’s Greatest Living Writer,” Literary Digest
- 1922: Only writer in New York Times’ “10 Greatest Contemporary Americans”
- 1923: Laurel’s Death
- 1930: Eyesight Completely Fails
- 1931: “Cider of Normandy” wins O. Henry Memorial Award
- 1933: Gold Medal, National Institute
- 1945: Howell’s Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1946: Dies; buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis
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