Apple TV+’s series takes inspiration from Edith Wharton‘s posthumously published 1938 novel, but it doesn’t follow the plot to the letter. The premise, however, is the same. In both versions of the ...

Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. "While Wharton concentrated largely on upper-crust Manhattanites, there is a larger theme in her best work: acceptance—who’s ...

“It doesn’t make me esteem Wharton less. If anything, I take comfort in it, as a novelist.” Her own smash book “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is out in paperback.

Edith Wharton was one of the most prolific American writers of the early 20th century, offering a glimpse into the Gilded Age unlike anyone else through works such as The Age of Innocence, The House ...

Books. Essay; Edith Wharton Goes to War During World War I, the American novelist of high society transformed herself into a pioneering frontline reporter. Ruth Gwily. By Anne Nelson .

LENOX — Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, "The Age of Innocence," but her best known long tale, "Ethan Frome," was not only inspired by events in the Berkshires, but it also was set ...

Edith’s surmise that David was slain by a rival author who shares his publisher is squelched by the dead man’s editor: “We make it a policy not to publish murderers, Mrs. Wharton.

Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel The Buccaneers was completed and published in 1938, after the author’s death in France the previous year. In the book, which is a heck of a read and the basis ...

Edith Wharton wasn't the first woman in her family to get a divorce. Nearly 50 years before the Pulitzer winner sold her Lenox estate, divorced Teddy Wharton and permanently moved to France, her ...

Celebrate Edith Wharton's birthday on Jan. 24 by joining The Mount's Book Club, or by picking up one of her 40 novels.

In his excellent introduction to Edith Wharton’s The Writing of Fiction, the author and critic Brandon Taylor offers an observation that bears repeating: Literature from the past may contain ...