Best known as a novelist of manners, Wharton chronicled the cruel excesses of American genteel society both at home and abroad at the beginning of the twentieth century in works ranging from The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911) to The Age...

Edith Wharton - (1862 - 1937) (Full name Edith Newbold Jones Wharton) American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and autobiographer. Wharton is best known as a novelist of manners whose fiction detailed the cruel excesses of aristocratic society...

(born Jan. 24, 1862, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 11, 1937, St.-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France) American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born. Edith Jones came of a...

(born Jan. 24, 1862, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France) U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Born into upper-class society, she began writing a few years after her marriage in 1885. She...

Edith Wharton, one of the most successful American novelists of her time, wrote twenty-five novels and novellas as well as eighty-six short stories. Her Age of Innocence (1920), about Old New York society, won a Pulitzer prize, and she was the first...

Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 – August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer....