Encyclopedia:
- The Gentleman from Indiana (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
Calendar of Literary Facts:
- Booth Tarkington receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Magnificent Ambersons
- Booth Tarkington publishes The Magificent Ambersons
- Booth Tarkington is born
- Booth Tarkington dies
- Booth Tarkington receives his second Pulitzer Prize in fiction, for Alice Adams
- Booth Tarkington publishes Alice Adams
