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    Edith Wharton

    Wharton c. 1895

    BornEdith Newbold Jones
    (1862-01-24)January 24, 1862
    New York City, U.S.
    DiedAugust 11, 1937(1937-08-11) (aged 75)
    Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France
    Resting placeCimetière des Gonards, Versailles, Yvelines, France
    Occupation
    • Novelist
    • short story writer
    • designer
    Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Fiction
    1921 The Age of Innocence
    Spouse

    Edward Robbins Wharton

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    1885; div. 1913)​

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    Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer.

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    Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age of Innocence.

    She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her ot