Edith Wharton

Edith Jones was born in New York City in 1862 into a wealthy old family, and was educated by tutors at home and during long stays in Europe. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker. She first wrote about architecture and interior design, coauthoring The Decoration of Houses in 1897, and designed her own house, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her novel The House of Mirth (1905), about a young woman in New York high society, was a bestseller. Ethan Frome (1911) is a short, stark tale of a poor farmer in a snowy New England village. She moved permanently to France, divorced in 1913, and during the First World War organized relief work for refugees in Paris, for which the French government made her a member of the Legion of Honor. The Age of Innocence (1920), set in the New York of her youth, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, the first awarded to a woman for fiction. She died in France in 1937.

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Faith: Baptized in the Episcopal Church; her personal beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia