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Although best known as a novelist, Booth Tarkington also enjoyed some success as a playwright, with such works as stage versions of his novels Monsieur Beaucaire (1901) and The Gentleman from Indiana (1905), as well as The Man from Home (1907). Tarkington also enjoyed considerable success as a writer of short stories. Two of his stories, “The One-Hundred Dollar Bill” and “Stella Crozier,” were honored with the O. Henry Award in 1923 and 1926, respectively. In addition, Tarkington’s short-story collection Mr. White, the Red...

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