Wharton was born into society and was educated privately at home and in France. She married Edward Wharton in 1885, a Boston banker. Having written some excellent short stories, these were collectively published as The Greater Inclination in 1899. Her first full-length novel, Valley of Decision, appeared in 1902 and in 1905, she published the very successful The House of Mirth. Her best known work, Ethan Fromme, was published in 1911. She settled permanently in France in 1907 and was divorced in 1913. Her other novels of note were The Reef (1912), The Custom of the Country (1913), The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, Glimpses of the Moon (1922), Twilight Sleep (1927), which was a best-seller, The Children (1928), Hudson River Bracketed (1929) and The Gods Arrive (1932). |
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