The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.

Sue Atchley Ebaugh,
Edith Wharton biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Edith Wharton

Author Name:

Edith Wharton

Born As:

Edith Newbold Jones

Other Names:

Born:

24 Jan 1862

Died:

11 Aug 1937




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Novelist                          
Selected Works:

Verses - 1878, novel
Only a Child - 1879, poem
The Decoration of Houses -  1897
The Greater Inclination -  1899
The Touchstone - 1900
The Line of Least Resistance - 1900
The Rembrandt - 1900
April Showers - 1900
Crucial Instances - 1901
The Moving Finger - 1901
The Recovery - 1901
Margaret of Cortona - 1901, poem
The Valley of Decision - 1902
The Quicksand - 1902
The Reckoning - 1902
The Mission of Jane - 1902
The Dilettante - 1903
The Vice of Reading - 1903
Italian Villas and Their Gardens - 1904
The Last Asset - 1904
The Letter - 1904
The Other Two - 1904
The Pot-Boiler - 1904
The Best Man - 1905
The House of Mirth - 1905
Italian Backgrounds - 1905
In Trust - 1906
The Introducers - 1906
The Fruit of the Tree - 1907
Madame de Treymes - 1907
A Motor-Flight Through France - 1908
The Bolted Door - 1908
Expiation - 1908
Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses - 1909
A Grave - 1909, poem
Ogrin the Hermit - 1909
The Comrade - 1910
The Letters - 1910
Other Times - Other Manners - 1911
Ethan Frome - 1912
The Reef - 1912, novel
The Long Run - 1912
The Custom of the Country - 1913
Coming Home - 1915
Fighting France - from Dunkerque to Belfort - 1915
The Great Blue Tent - 1915, poem
The Book of the Homeless - 1916
Xingu and Other Stories - 1916
The Bunner Sisters - 1916
Summer - 1917
The Marne - 1918
The Refugees - 1919
French Ways and Their Meaning - 1919
The Seed of the Faith - 1919
Writing a War Story - 1919
The Age of Innocence - 1920
In Morocco - 1921
In Provence and Lyrical Epigrams - 1920, poem
The Glimpses of the Moon - 1922
A Son at the Front - 1923
Old New York - 1924, novel
The Mother's Recompense - 1925
The Writing of Fiction - 1925
Here and Beyond - 1926
Twelve Poems - 1926
Twilight Sleep - 1927
The Children - 1928
Hudson River Bracketed - 1929
The Gods Arrive - 1932
Roman Fever - 1934
A Backward Glance - 1934
The Buccaneers - 1938.                          
Husband Edward Robbins Wharton, divorced 1913.                          
The Age of Innocence, 1920, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the first woman to win the award.