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Jan 24, 1862 New York City, New York, United States Died on 11 Aug 1937 (aged 75)
American novelist, short story writer, designer
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About Edith Wharton
- Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer.
- 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.
- She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921.
- She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
