Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton

American writer and designer (1862–1937)

📅 1862–1937 · 19th century📚 60 titlesEN 30ES 30

Biography

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.

Biography in Spanish

Edith Wharton, de soltera Edith Newbold Jones, fue una escritora y diseñadora estadounidense.

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