Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 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, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902.
The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, published
in 1905. She died in 1937.
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the editor of
The Portable Edith Wharton.
"Edith Wharton's finest achievement."
--Elizabeth Hardwick
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