American novelist, playwright, and essayist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) chronicled upper-class New England life, drawing upon her privileged social position to create witty and psychologically insightful tales. Nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Her novels include Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, and The House of Mirth.