The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington (1869 -1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS and ALICE ADAMS. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

The Magnificent Ambersons was published in 1918 but remains very popular to this day. It is Tarkington's best novel, a typical story of an American family and town-the great family that ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city.

This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, this tale of the Ambersons so admirably conceived and written, winning the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

It was also adapted into a successful 1942 film directed by Orson Welles. Read the book, then watch the movie.