The setting is largely a fictionalized version of Indianapolis and much of it was inspired by the neighborhood of Woodruff Place. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. He was famous for this book, ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ and ‘Alice Adams’.Īlthough he was considered by many to be American’s greatest living author in the 1910’s and the 1920’s, being one of only three novelist to win the Pulitzer Prize multiple times, his works are sadly neglected today. I knew nothing about Booth Tarkington until just a few days ago.įor those who might not either, ( okay, maybe just a few of you).īooth Tarkington was a leading American novelist of the Interwar period. could not put it down!!!!! Review later - Time to hike! xoxo He was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for the novel Alice Adams (1921).ĪBSOLUTEY MAGNIFICENT.
This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Amber-sons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end."īooth Tarkington (1869-1946), a prolific writer who achieved overnight success with his first novel, The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), is perhaps best remembered as the author of the popular Penrod adventures and Seventeen (1916). " a typical story of an American family and town-the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. Today The Magnificent Ambersons is best known through the 1942 Orson Welles movie, but as the critic Stanley Kauffmann noted, "It is high time that appear again, to stand outside the force of Welles's genius, confident in its own right." " The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," judged Van Wyck Brooks. Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's magnificence. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty.
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