&quot;The Magnificent Ambersons&quot; is a 1918 novel written by Booth Tarkington, which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is the second novel of his trilogy called <i>Growth</i>.&nbsp;<br /><br />The story is set mainly in a fictionalized version of Indianapolis and was greatly inspired by the neighbourhood of Woodruff Place. &quot;The Magnificent Ambersons&quot; chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty, the aristocratic Amberson family. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington&#39;s great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family&#39;s magnificence. 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.<br /><br />Today &quot;The Magnificent Ambersons&quot; is best known through the 1942 Orson Welles movie.