Wharton, Edith

Pulitzer prize winner, American author and short story writer, Wharton is chiefly recognized for her novella Ethan Frome (1911).
Wharton was born in a wealthy New York City family, and was educated by tutors in New York City and in Europe. She served as a relief volunteer in France during World War I (1914-1918) and recorded her wartime encounters in two novels, The Marne (1918) and A Son at the Front (1923). Her other significant novels include The House of Mirth (1905), Hudson River Bracketed (1929), The Gods Arrive (1932), Xingu and Other Stories (1916), Artemis to Act?on (1909) and Twelve Poems (1926).
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Pulitzer prize winner, American author and short story writer, Wharton is chiefly recognized for her novella Ethan Frome (1911).
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