Novelist Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton

Living place: New York City

Birthday: 24-1-1862

Global rank: #39765

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Who is Novelist Edith Wharton?
American novelist whose best known works include The Age of Innocence (1920), Ethan Frome (1911), and The House of Mirth (1905). Her popular novels, known for their dramatic irony, earned her the Pulitzer Prize and numerous Nobel Prize nominations.
She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.

Young / Before famous

She is a successful gardener and interior designer. Her first published work, in fact, was an 1897 book called Decorations of the House.

Family life info

She and her two brothers were born into a famous New York City family. In 1885, she married Teddy Robbins Wharton, who became increasingly mentally ill. The couple divorced in 1913.

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She and W. E.B. DuBois are both famous American authors.

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When was Novelist Edith Wharton born?
Edith Wharton was born in 24-1-1862, death year is , at the age of 162.
Where is Novelist Edith Wharton's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Edith Wharton was born in New York City, New York- United States. Là Novelist, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Edith Wharton's global rank is 39765 and whose rank is 242 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1862 and 24-1

Birthday Edith Wharton (24-1) in history

  • Day 24-1 year 41: Gaius Caesar, the Roman emperor, nicknamed Caligula (meaning The Little Shoe - because he used to wear military boots as a child), was murdered.
  • Day 24-1 year 1848: Gold was first discovered in California, in Sutter's mill. When President Polk announced the news in December, the gold rush began.
  • Day 24-1 year 1908: Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop in England.
  • Day 24-1 year 1943: The Casablanca Conference with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill concluded.
  • Day 24-1 year 1965: Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.
  • Day 24-1 year 1972: Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on.
  • Day 24-1 year 1986: Voyager Two space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus.
  • Day 24-1 year 1993: The first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, died.
  • Day 24-1 year 2003: The Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge, became a cabinet department.
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