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Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for "The Age of Innocence." Born in 1862 into one of New York's older and richer families, she was educated here and abroad. Her works include "Ethan Frome, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Glimpses of the Moon, " and "Roman Fever and Other Stories." As a keen observer and chronicler of society, she is without peer. Edith Wharton died in France in 1937.

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Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for "The Age of Innocence." Born in 1862 into one of New York's older and richer families, she was educated here and abroad. Her works include "Ethan Frome, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Glimpses of the Moon, " and "Roman Fever and Other Stories." As a keen observer and chronicler of society, she is without peer. Edith Wharton died in France in 1937.
Autorenporträt
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.