The Magnificent Ambersons
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The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy, after The Turmoil and before The Midlander. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Booth Tarkington
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Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Ficti
The Magnificent Ambersons
…The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy, after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize…
Tarkington in 1922
Cover page for Penrod, depicting Penrod Schofield and his dog Duke (1914)
Newton Booth Tarkington by 19th-20th century artist John White Alexander
Tarkington is interred in the Tarkington-Jameson mausoleum at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.