Edith Wharton

January 24, 1862

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862–August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.

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The Age of Innocence

1993

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The Buccaneers

2023

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The House of Mirth

2000

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The Old Maid

1939

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Ethan Frome

1993

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The Buccaneers

1995

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The Age of Innocence

1934

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The Marriage Playground

1929