Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American writer and designer who drew upon her insider’s knowledge of upper-class New Yorkers to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, The Age of Innocence, and was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1996. She published fifteen novels, seven novellas, eighty-five short stories, and poetry, as well as books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, a memoir, and plays. Her themes delved into social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the unmasking of truth.
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