page_title: Edith Wharton
hierarchical_section_title: Edith Wharton
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of writer Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island. Cabinet photograph. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Yale University.
context_page_description: Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her most famous works include the novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth as well as the novella Ethan Frome.
context_section_description: Edith Wharton (/ˈhwɔːrtən/; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her most famous works include the novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth as well as the novella Ethan Frome.
caption: Edith Wharton, c. 1895
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