Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862–August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in ...

Architectural historian Richard Wilson (Hist’63) reveals Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton’s effect on design in his book Edith Wharton at Home: Life at The Mount (The Monacelli Press).

Edith Wharton was a poet, essayist, short story writer, and novelist. In 1921 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, awarded for her novel The Age of Innocence.