Edith Wharton (1862-1937) · CatalogEdith WhartonEdith Wharton (1862-1937) · CatalogAmerican novelist, author of The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.
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Edith Wharton
1862-1937 · American novelist, author of The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton, photographed by E. F. Cooper, c. 1889–1890. Source · Public domain
About Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born into New York's old society, became one of America's great novelists of manners and in 1921 the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Ethan Frome is a short novel by Edith Wharton, serialized in Scribner's Magazine and published as a book in 1911. Set in the fictional village of Starkfield, Massachusetts, it is framed by the account of an unnamed engineer who spends a winter there and becomes curious about Ethan Frome, a striking, silent farmer whose body is twisted and lamed by what the villagers call 'the smash-up' of twenty-four years before.
The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, won Edith Wharton the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, the first awarded to a woman for fiction. It looks back fifty years to the New York society of the 1870s, a world governed by unspoken rules and family alliances.
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