Library of America and Penguin Random House will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pulitzer Prize winner Booth Tarkington with a new edition of The Magnificent Ambersons. Orson Welles adapted Tarkington’s acclaimed 1918 novel for his second film in 1942. Later, Welles said that his father, Richard, an inventor of bicycle lamps, had been friends … Continue reading New edition of ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ to mark 150th anniversary of Booth Tarkington’s birth