Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on 24th January 1862 during the American Civil War.
Wharton published her first short story in 1891 her first story collection The Greater
Inclination in 1899 a novella called The Touchstone in 1900 and her first novel The Valley
of Decision in 1902. Her most famous work The House of Mirth was published in 1905. She died
in 1937.
