![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We feature her work in our collection of World War I Literature. In 1916, she was given France's highest honor, appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, for her contribution to the War effort. Wharton's 1911 novel, Ethan Frome has become a staple of American Literature and is widely studied in classrooms around the world. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature, taking that honor in 1921 for The Age of Innocence. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis amongst her friends (Lewis dedicated his novel Babbitt to her). The Joneses were a wealthy New York family and one of Wharton's biographers claims that the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" is in reference to her father's family.Īs part of America's privileged class, Edith Wharton was well-acquainted with many public figures of the day and counted Henry James, F. The novelist known as Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was born as Edith Newbold Jones. Pen Name: Born: JanuDied: August 11, 1937 ![]()
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