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Edith Wharton

1862 - 1937

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Edith Newbold Wharton (; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Wharton is the 1,079th most popular writer (down from 1,000th in 2019), the 1,540th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,144th in 2019) and the 121st most popular American Writer.

Edith Wharton is best known for her novels, such as "The House of Mirth" and "Ethan Frome."

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Among writers, Edith Wharton ranks 1,079 out of 7,302. Before her are Leigh Hunt, Thomas Pynchon, Bolesław Prus, Michel Tournier, Tavo Burat, and Bernard-Henri Lévy. After her are Pierre Louÿs, Ibn Sirin, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Dubravka Ugrešić, Yakub Kolas, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Edith Wharton ranks 29. Before her are Henri Pirenne, J. Bruce Ismay, Siegbert Tarrasch, Prince Henry of Prussia, Daniel Swarovski, and Aurel Stein. After her are Mori Ōgai, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Ugyen Wangchuck, Loie Fuller, Maurice Barrès, and Georges Feydeau. Among people deceased in 1937, Edith Wharton ranks 36. Before her are Frank B. Kellogg, Ramsay MacDonald, Albert Roussel, J. Bruce Ismay, Emilio Mola, and Takeo Wakabayashi. After her are Pavel Florensky, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Bessie Smith, Louis Vierne, and Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edith Wharton ranks 1,540 out of 20,380. Before her are Etta James (1938), George Stigler (1911), Jackie Robinson (1919), Barbara Bel Geddes (1922), Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861), and Cesar Chavez (1927). After her are Gary Gilmore (1940), Henry Way Kendall (1926), Dennis Rader (1945), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Shia LaBeouf (1986), and Harriet Jacobs (1813).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edith Wharton ranks 121. Before her are Dalton Trumbo (1905), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Clifford D. Simak (1904), William Gibson (1948), and Thomas Pynchon (1937). After her are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Harriet Jacobs (1813), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Roger Zelazny (1937), Jeff Lindsay (1952), and John Cheever (1912).

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