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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer, known for her incisive portrayals of upper-class society and the constraints of social convention. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Age of Innocence. Her work combines psychological insight with precise social observation, and remains central to the study of American literary realism.