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We feature Wharton in our collection of Pulitzer Prize Winners.

Wharton was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Yale University in 1923, she was the first woman to claim that distinction. We feature her work in our collection of World War I Literature. In 1916, she was given France's highest honor, appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, for her contribution to the War effort. A marked departure from Edith Wharton’s usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. Wharton's 1911 novel, Ethan Frome has become a staple of American Literature and is widely studied in classrooms around the world. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature, taking that honor in 1921 for The Age of Innocence. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis amongst her friends (Lewis dedicated his novel Babbitt to her).

The Joneses were a wealthy New York family and one of Wharton's biographers claims that the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" is in reference to her father's family.Īs part of America's privileged class, Edith Wharton was well-acquainted with many public figures of the day and counted Henry James, F. The novelist known as Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was born as Edith Newbold Jones. Note Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022.