Edith Wharton
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 87 years ago |
Date of birth | January 24,1862 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | New York |
United States | |
Date of died | August 11,1937 |
Died | Pavillon Colombe |
Saint-Brice-sous-Foret | |
France | |
Movies/Shows | The House of Mirth |
The Reef | |
Ethan Frome | |
The Children | |
The Old Maid | |
Strange Wives | |
The Marriage Playground | |
The Glimpses of the Moon | |
The Age of Innocence | |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction | |
Spouse | Edward Robbins Wharton |
Short stories | Roman Fever |
Madame de Treymes | |
Crucial Instances | |
The Muse's Tragedy | |
Parents | Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander |
George Frederic Jones | |
Books | The Age of Innocence |
Ethan Frome | |
The House of Mirth | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 426774 |
Edith Wharton Life story
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.