Pic Description: Edith. Wharton was originally designed to distraction bored upper-class family life and start writing. She began publishing novels from 1880, 1889, the first collection of short stories published, won an unexpected success. 1905 novel "Happy House" publication, so she became the first two decades of this century, the most popular American writer. 1920 published "The Age of Innocence" won the Pulitzer Prize for her. She wrote a total of nineteen in the novel, published eleven collections of short stories, a lot of non-fiction works.
