Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the no.
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 in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence.
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 (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer