Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She is best known for her incisive portrayals of upper-class New York society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her major works include The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Custom of the Country. Wharton received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for The Age of Innocence and wrote extensively on architecture, travel, and social issues.