Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American author best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was considered the greatest living American author in much of the 1910s and 1920s. While he was born and grew up in Indiana, “Booth” eventually fell in love with the coast of Maine, and built a home in the charming village of Kennebunkport. In Kennebunkport, he was well known as a sailor, and his schooner, the Regina, survived him. Regina was moored next to Tarkington’s boathouse this building, which was named “The Floats” which he also used as his studio. The building was constructed in 1900 as a shop to build ships. He purchased the building, preserving it for generations to come. After his death, the boathouse and studio were converted into the Kennebunkport Maritime Museum. The building appears to now be a private residence, perched above the harbor. How charming!
Buildings of New England 
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Thanks for including that. Tarkington was from Indianapolis but I had wondered about his life in Maine. It looks like he lived pretty well.
The Davis family who hosted Hemingway in Spain (1959, ‘The Dangerous Summer’) was the same family that Tarkington based his novel ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ on.
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in the 1950s and 60s The Floats was owned by Betty Trotter, of Chestnut Hill Philadelphia. She had been Booth Tarkington’s secretary and he left it to her. Betty was known for her support of the foreign students who studied at Penn in those years, many of whom spent time at The Floats, sleeping dormitory style in a collection of antique beds, and a captain’s bunk rescued from (probably Tarkington’s) schooner. I and my husband and our young children were some of those lucky people.
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