(1862–1937)
a US writer of novels and short stories, many of which are about high society in New York. Her best-known novel is The Age of Innocence (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize and became a film (1993) directed by Martin Scorsese . Wharton’s other novels include The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911). She lived in France after 1913.