Edith Wharton
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American novelist, short story writer, designer
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Why Is Edith Wharton Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edith Wharton 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 in Fiction, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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What Are Edith Wharton's Academic Contributions?
Edith Wharton has made the following academic contributions:
- The Reef
- The Glimpses of the Moon
- The Age of Innocence
- Madame de Treymes
- Ethan Frome
- A Son at the Front
- The Valley of Decision
- The Marne
- The House of Mirth
- The Fruit of the Tree
- The Decoration of Houses
- The Custom of the Country
- The Children
- The Buccaneers
- Summer
- Sanctuary
- Old New York
- Lendemain
- Crucial Instances
- Bunner Sisters