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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American poet, novelist and designer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel “The Age of Innocence.” She grew up in the aristocracy of ...

In 1911, Edith Wharton found herself stuck at the Belmont Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Her life was stagnant. She was at the beginning of her divorce from Teddy Wharton. They were at the Belmont, ...

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; 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 ...

To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club on Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, click the arrow on the player below. You can also download the audio file here, or click ...

Has she dislodged her predecessor? Yes, triumphantly. Wharton’s own story, as related by Lee, is as compulsively readable and as coherent in all its parts as Wharton’s best novels: The House of Mirth, ...