Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (born 1862)

Edith Wharton

American writer and designer (1862–1937)

Edith Newbold 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 for…