Author

Books by Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her unsentimental examinations of Gilded Age and early-twentieth-century New York society. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Age of Innocence in 1921. Her other major novels include The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Ethan Frome. During World War One she organized relief efforts in France and was awarded the French Legion of Honor. She lived in France for much of her later life and died outside Paris at the age of 75.