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Edith Wharton
1862 – 1937 · aged 75
American writer and designer (1862–1937)
- Born
- 24 Jan 1862 · New York City
- Died
- 11 Aug 1937 · Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
Life timeline
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- 24 Jan 1862BornBorn in New York City
- 1921AwardPulitzer Prize for the Novel
- 11 Aug 1937DiedDied in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1862 – 1937).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
Biography
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 upper-class New York society 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. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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