Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American poet, novelist and designer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel “The Age of Innocence.” She grew up in the aristocracy of ...

Novelist Edith Wharton knew the depths and complexities of the human soul. More than a hundred years later, the inexorable fall of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth still distresses and confounds ...

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. Her ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. With The Buccaneers, new audiences may ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Locked in a loveless marriage for the better part of 22 years to Edward "Teddy" Wharton, a wealthy Bostonian 13 years her senior, Edith Wharton found sexual awakening at age 45. Her ...

In the September issue of Vogue, yes the 916-page one, there is a feature on Edith Wharton, including a 2-page essay from Colm Toibin and a 16-page fashion layout shot at Wharton’s former estate in ...

Plays about writers, including “Mr. Fullerton,” a new potboiler probing Edith Wharton’s love life, too often undermine the real brilliance of their subjects. By Jesse Green GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — ...

As many have pointed out, the stakes in The Gilded Age—Julian Fellowes’ HBO drama about Old New York in the age of the robber barons—feel low, possibly even invisible. Two episodes in, the main source ...

Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer Craving More of ‘The Gilded Age’? Read These Books Next. If you’re reeling after ...