Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
Edith Wharton Quotes
What can you expect of a girl who was allowed to wear black satin at her coming-out ball?
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| Birth: | 24th January, 1862 |
| Death: | 11th August, 1937 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.
