Edith Wharton

✶January 24, 1862

†August 11, 1937

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About their life

Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.

American writer and designer (1862–1937)

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Biography from the article Edith Wharton on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.