Edith Wharton
1862-1937
Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton
drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York
"aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the
Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer
Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age of Innocence.
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