Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons is a novel written by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The story is set in a largely fictionalized version of Indianapolis, and much of it was inspired by the neighborhood of Woodruff Place. The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America.