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Edith Wharton ( IPA : /ˈiːdɪθ ˈwɔːrtən/ ), ursprungligen Edith Newbold Jones, född 24 januari 1862 [ 10] i New York, död 11 augusti 1937 i Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt i Val-d'Oise, Frankrike, var en amerikansk författare. Hon nominerades till Nobelpriset i litteratur 1927, 1928 och 1930.
4 de fev. de 2019 · The 1921 Pulitzer Prize Controversy. The first major Pulitzer Prize scandal dogged the 1921 award for The Age of Innocence.It was only the third book to ever receive the prize, with Edith Wharton being the first female winner, but in 1921, the Pulitzer Prize Jury had actually favored Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street, a satire of American provincial life.
28 de set. de 2020 · Edith Wharton grew up in the upper rungs of New York society in the midst of the Gilded Age. Her upbringing inspired the work that would eventually cement her place in the American literary canon.
4 de out. de 2018 · Edith Wharton. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels, which explore the world of the privileged in America's Gilded Age, in which she lived, written in hindsight and with little mercy ...
24 de mai. de 2024 · Edith Wharton (born January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France) was an American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born. Edith Jones came of a distinguished and long-established New York family.
The Age of Innocence, published in October 1920, is one of Edith Wharton’s most enduring works. She wrote it at high speed, completing the 365-page novel in less than seven months. Forced by financial reasons into this compressed time schedule, her notes, manuscripts, and letters reveal both craftsmanship and pragmatism.
9 de set. de 2019 · If Undine Spragg, the heroine of Edith Wharton’s novel “The Custom of the Country,” were alive today, she would have a million followers on Instagram and be a Page Six legend.
