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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a tightly controlled society at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage.Edith wharton life biography school
Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of America’s greatest writers. Author of The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The House of Mirth, she wrote over 40 books in 40 years, including authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel.
She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
“No children of my own age…were as close to me as the great voices that spoke to me from books.
Whenever I try to recall my childhood it is in my father’s library that it comes to life…”
Childhood
Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones into a wealthy New York family on January 24, 1862, at 14 West 23rdSt.
The third child and only daughter of Ge