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The Turmoil is a 1915 novel by American author Booth Tarkington. [1] [2] Written when Tarkington was about 50, it became a #1 bestseller. It deals with the transformation of idealized small town life and the relationship of a father and son. [3] It received favorable reviews from critics.
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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 .
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The Turmoil is a 1924 American silent melodrama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and directed by Hobart Henley. It is based on the novel, The Turmoil, by Booth Tarkington. [1] A previous film of the novel, The Turmoil, by Metro Pictures, was released in 1916. [2]
The Magnificent Ambersons received the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. [3]"The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks.. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town—the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city.