Edith Wharton was born into a privileged New York family in 1862 and died in France in 1937. In addition to her works as a novelist, most famously "The House of Mirth," "The Age of Innocence," "The Custom of the Country," and "Ethan Frome," she also was a renowned interior designer, and was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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