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Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Jones (Edith Wharton) (1862-1937) was born in New York City during the American Civil War. She enjoyed a diverse and successful career as an interior and garden designer, short story writer and celebrated novelist, and was famously the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.