Who wrote the novel The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)?
Orson Welles’s 1942 movie The Magnificent Ambersons was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Booth Tarkington.
Tarkington also won a Pulitzer for the novel Alice Adams (1921).
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