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 ...

Has she dislodged her predecessor? Yes, triumphantly. Wharton’s own story, as related by Lee, is as compulsively readable and as coherent in all its parts as Wharton’s best novels: The House of Mirth, ...