Newton Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 29, 1869.

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' It is] 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 the novel] 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. The Magnificent Ambersons By Booth Tarkington 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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