Edith Wharton
American writer and designer (1862-1937) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 75
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.
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Portrait of Wharton as a child by Edward Harrison May (1870)
Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May (1881)
The Mount, 2006
Edith Wharton c. 1889
Land's End, Newport, Rhode Island
Page from original manuscript of The House of Mirth, in Edith Wharton's hand
Wharton's Le Pavillon Colombe, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, FranceAwards
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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.
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In the same film or series as Edith
Beverly BayneAlso in The Age of Innocence (1924)
Dolores CostelloAlso in The Glimpses of the Moon (1923)
Irene DunneAlso in The Age of Innocence (1934)
Mary BrianAlso in The Marriage Playground (1929)
Katherine Corri HarrisAlso in The House of Mirth (1918)
Nita NaldiAlso in The Glimpses of the Moon (1923)