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.


![Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Harlan Ellison, Algernon Blackwood, Tanith Lee, M. R. James, Joanna Russ, Ramsey Campbell, John Collier, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, Michael Shea, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Hichens, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dennis Etchison, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Gene Wolfe, Robert W. Chambers, Oliver Onions, Nathaniel Hawthorne, David G. Hartwell, Fitz-James O'Brien, Stephen King, 시어도어 스터전, Richard Matheson, Clive Barker, Ambrose Bierce, Joyce Carol Oates, Disch, Thomas M., Edith Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Bloch, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton: The Dark descent (1987, T. Doherty Associates, [Distributed by St. Martin's Press])](https://lire-media.boitam.eu/images/covers/a2173756-c610-4344-91a8-3ec4b642b16c.jpeg)




