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About Edith Wharton
American writer and designer
Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Born in 1862 and active in the early 20th century, she is known for fiction that drew on her knowledge of upper-class New York society, especially the manners and constraints of the Gilded Age. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for The Age of Innocence, becoming the first woman to receive it. Her best-known works also include The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories, which helped define her reputation for sharp social realism and careful observation.
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Books by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
2007
The House of Mirth
2016
The Age of Innocence
2006
Summer
2007
The Custom of the Country
2000