Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones
January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, W.
She was inducted into the National Women\'s Hall of Fame in 1996.
In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
Wharton drew upon her insider\'s knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones
January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer