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Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones on January 24, 1862, to a
wealthy New York City family. Best known for her novels, Wharton’s
illustrious literary career also included poetry, short stories,
design books, and travelogues. She gained widespread recognition
with the 1905 publication of The House of Mirth, a darkly comic
portrait of New York aristocracy. In 1921, she won the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920),
becoming the fi rst woman to claim it. Wharton moved to France in
1913, where she remained until her death. In addition to her many
literary accolades, Wharton was awarded a French Legion of Honor
medal for her humanitarian efforts during World War I. Edith
Wharton died on August 11, 1937. Kristin O. Lauer is Associate
Professor of English at Fordham University. Her publications
include Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews (with James
Tuttleton and Margaret P. Murray) and Edith Wharton: An Annotated
Secondary Bibliography (with Margaret P. Murray). Her
psychological study, Gallery of the Damned: The Inner World of
Edith Wharton's Women, is forthcoming. She has published
psychological essays on George Eliot, Henry James, and Edith
Wharton.
Cynthia Griffin Wolff is Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author
of A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton, Emily Dickinson,
and Samuel Richardson and the Eighteenth-Century Puritan
Character. She has edited many literary works, including
Short Fiction of Major American Women Writers: Jewett, Chopin,
Wharton, and Cather; Four Works by American Women Writers; and
Edith Wharton's Summer, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the
Country, and The Touchstone. Her essays and articles have
appeared in many journals in the United States and Canada.
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