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Nov 4, 2019 · For the first time, Tarkington addresses head on his major preoccupation, the relentless transformation of American small-town life (seen through rose-tinted glasses) into the ferocious...
The volumes that Tarkington completed over the course of the first half of the twentieth century form a documentary testament of industrialization, urbanization, and social flux in urban middle America. Biographer James Woodress characterized his body of work as "a paradigm of growth in the Midwest."
With the Great Depression, Tarkington’s preoccupation with social concerns increased, but his popularity and success rested mainly on his earlier achievements.
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead.
Tarkington novels are The Turmoil, The Magnificent Ambersons and The Midlander. Loosely, they form a trilogy. Indianapolis be-gets their common scene, and they portray the growth of a Mid-western city in various eras. One always remembers from them the very fine atmospherics, so typical of America, of the changing
Booth Tarkington's The Magnificient Ambersons describes the decline of the Amberson family from wealthy social prominence to impoverished social inconsequence. The fall of this family's fortune...
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Nov 21, 2018 · Originally hailing from Indianapolis (where many of his novels were set), Newton Booth Tarkington was a degree-less Princeton man whose upper-crust patrician Hoosier family tragically lost much of its wealth during the Panic of 1893 –a tragedy not unlike the crisis facing the fictional Amberson family in The Magnificent Ambersons.
