How Edith Wharton Became Prestige TV’s Most Influential Writer

My favorite high school teacher introduced by saying, “Maybe not for everyone. Probably not for any of you.” That sums up how most people feel. Even though Edith Wharton—who published more than a dozen novels, as well as short stories, poems, travel books, and interior design books, and became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction—is one of America’s most celebrated writers, she remains one of its most misunderstood. Wharton is often perceived as having written almost exclusively about rich New Yorkers living and longing in the 19th century—and that’s not unfair. Wharton herself was a rich… Read Full Article