Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer and designer.
The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. She spoke fluent French as well as several other languages and many of her books were published in both French and English.





![Stephen King, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, Philip K. Dick, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Wharton, Joanna Russ, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Edith Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Harlan Ellison, Henry James, Clive Barker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Matheson, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Shea, Ambrose Bierce, Tanith Lee, Ramsey Campbell, Fritz Leiber, David G. Hartwell, Robert Bloch, D. H. Lawrence, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, 시어도어 스터전, Robert Hichens, Dennis Etchison, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert W. Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas M. Disch: The Dark descent (1987, T. Doherty Associates, [Distributed by St. Martin's Press])](https://bookwyrm-social.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/covers/af70cd21-47b9-4601-89d5-9965e4271282.jpeg)








