Edith Wharton

About The Author

Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer-prize winning American novelist, short story writer and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight.

Series by the Author

Books by Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth
By Edith Wharton
Introduction by Jennifer Egan
A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic critiquing New York City’s Gilded Age elite established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century—now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning auth...
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