Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she k...

While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depression, a counterva...

Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that before her death in 1937, her novels and short stories...

Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them," Conrad Lautenbacher,...

A Navy helicopter airlifted more than 20 people off a fishing boat that struck a reef while ferrying a medical team to help tsunami victims in the Solomon Islands, an official said Friday.The Taiwanese boat hit the reef off the western town of Gizo on...

A Navy helicopter airlifted more than 20 people off a fishing boat that struck a reef while ferrying a medical team to help tsunami victims in the Solomon Islands, an official said Friday.The Taiwanese boat hit the reef off the western town of Gizo on...

In an April 12 story about a U.S. Navy ship helping a grounded Taiwanese vessel in the Solomon Islands, The Associated Press incorrectly identified the Navy ship. It was the USNS GYSGT Fred W. Stockham, not the USS Frederick W. Stockton.___HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) _...