Edith Wharton

Author

Edith Wharton was an American novelist and short story writer who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born into New York's social elite in 1862, she became one of the sharpest chroniclers of Gilded Age America. She spent much of her later life in France. Afterward is one of her ghost stories — Wharton was a... masterful writer of supernatural fiction alongside her celebrated social novels. Her major works include The Age of Innocence (Pulitzer Prize), The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Custom of the Country. Her fiction dissects the rigid social codes of wealthy American society with devastating precision and psychological insight. Wharton died in 1937. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the finest American fiction ever written — razor-sharp social observation from a writer who knew the world she dissected intimately. Read more Show less