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American writer and designer (1862–1937)

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

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 for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence.

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She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.^[1] Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.

Biography

Early life

Edith Newbold Jones was born on January 24, 1862, to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City.

To her friends and family, she was known as "Pussy Jones". She had two elder brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. Frederic married Mary Cadwala