Edith Wharton, 1862-1937
Biographical note
American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau and André Gide were all guests of hers at one time or another. Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark were valued friends as well. Her meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald is described by the editors of her letters as "one of the better-known failed encounters in the American literary annals".
The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, giving Wharton the honor of being the first woman to win the award.
Works
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Novels
- The Touchstone [1900]
- The Valley of Decision [1902]
- Sanctuary [1903]
- The House of Mirth [1905]
- Madame de Treymes [1907]
- Fruit of the Tree [1907]
- Ethan Frome [1911]
- The Reef [1912]
- The Custom of the Country [1913]
- Bunner Sisters [1916]
- Summer [1917]
- The Marne [1918]
- The Age of Innocence [1920]
- The Glimpses of the Moon [1922]
- A Son at the Front [1923]
- Old New York [1924]
- The Mother’s Recompense [1925]
- Twilight Sleep [1927]
- The Children [1928]
- Hudson River Bracketed [1929]
- The Gods Arrive [1932]
- The Buccaneers [1938]
- Fast and Loose [1938 (first novel, written in 1876–1877)]
Short stories
- The Greater Inclination [1899]
- Crucial Instances [1901]
- The Descent of Man and other stories [1903]
- The Other Two [1904]
- The Hermit and the Wild Woman and other stories [1908]
- Tales of Men and Ghosts [1910]
- Xingu [1916]
- The Choice [1916]
- Coming Home [1916]
- The Triumph of Night [1916]
- Kerfol [1916]
- Autres Temps ... [1916]
- The Long Run [1916]
- Here and Beyond [1926]
- Certain People [1930]
- Human Nature [1933]
- The World Over [1936]
- Ghosts [1937]
Poetry
- Verses [1878]
- Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse [1909]
- Twelve Poems [1926]
Non-fiction
- The Decoration of Houses [1897]
- Italian Villas and Their Gardens [1904]
- Italian Backgrounds [1905]
- A Motor-Flight Through France [1908 (travel)]
- France, from Dunkerque to Belfort [1915 (war)]
- French Ways and Their Meaning [1919]
- In Morocco [1920 (travel)]
- The Writing of Fiction [1925 (essays on writing)]
- A Backward Glance [1934 (autobiography)]
