Edith Wharton

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

The Rembrandt, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2008 - 2009

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 into the privileged New York she later described with such wit and precision in The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1912). Wharton was also highly regarded as a landscape and interior designer, a “tastemaker” well acquainted with society. For her empathy toward World War I refugees, she was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1921 The Age of Innocence earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, never before awarded to a woman. She died in 1937 in Val d’Oise on what is now called rue Edith Wharton.