Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and writer, born Edith Jones in New York. She won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence (1920).

She also wrote verse, collected in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (1909) and Twelve Poems (1926); the sonnets "Experience" were printed in Stedman's An American Anthology (1900).