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Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) foi uma escritora de romances e contos nascida em Nova York. Foi a primeira mulher a receber o Prêmio Pulitzer de Ficção, em 1921, pelo romance A era da inocência, e também a primeira mulher a receber o título de doutora honoris causa pela Universidade de Yale.
Capa comum – 23 janeiro 2023. Tradução inédita. Edição com apresentação e notas. Obra-prima da norte-americana Edith Wharton (1862-1937), A idade da inocência foi publicada em 1920, fazendo da autora a primeira mulher a ganhar o Prêmio Pulitzer de ficção. Ambientado na alta sociedade nova-iorquina do fim do século XIX, o romance ...
Edith Wharton is considered one of the most prominent American authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, to a wealthy and socially prominent family.
20 de jan. de 2017 · Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones in 1862, into the ‘leisure class’ of New York. As Karen Farrington observes in her compelling book of short biographies Great Lives: As heard on Radio 4, Wharton ‘wasn’t so much born with a silver spoon in her mouth as the entire cutlery set.’. She didn’t write to survive; money was never going to ...
Edith Wharton Biography. Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones into an upper-class New York City family in 1862. Typical for members of her class at that time, Edith had a distant relationship with her parents. She received a marriage proposal at a young age, but the wedding was ultimately thwarted by her prospective in-laws’ perception of the ...
8 de set. de 2020 · In addition to fiction, she published books on poetry, travel, and design—as well as a memoir, a book on cultural criticism, and more. Her novel, The Age of Innocence, was published in 1920 and won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This made her the first woman to win this award. Wharton was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature ...
26 de jan. de 2021 · Edith Wharton’s 1921 Pulitzer Prize was originally supposed to go to Sinclair Lewis. The Pulitzer Prize jury chose Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street, a bleak satire on small-town Minnesota life.