Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author famous for novels set in the late 19th century, also wrote an influential book on interior design, long considered a sort of bible of American decorating ...

LENOX — In 1900, Edith Wharton settled into the Lenox social scene with her husband, Teddy Wharton. Over the next decade, Edith Wharton would build The Mount and become a best-selling author with the ...

In 1911, Edith Wharton found herself stuck at the Belmont Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Her life was stagnant. She was at the beginning of her divorce from Teddy Wharton. They were at the Belmont, ...

New York City in 1911 was undergoing a revolution of culture change. The Gilded Age, roughly the 1870s to late 1890s, is over; Prohibition and the Jazz Age are still ahead. New ideas such as motorized ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. Wharton was an unlikely writer: her upbringing was in the ...

The 1911 murder of an author in New York City is the (real-life) event that drives Mariah Fredericks’s “The Wharton Plot.” Ms. Fredericks casts the American writer Edith Wharton as an amateur ...

Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer Craving More of ‘The Gilded Age’? Read These Books Next. If you’re reeling after ...

The Mount – Edith Wharton’s estate in Lenox, Massachusetts – is celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the author’s magnum opus with a homecoming. Under lock and key in the book-lined study of her ...

Editor’s Note: While doing postdoctoral research for a project on Edith Wharton’s short fiction, Sarah Whitehead, an independent scholar in London, came across the typescript of an unpublished story, ...

In one of the earliest issues of The Atlantic, the poet and essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. made a direct appeal to his audience on behalf of his fellow writers: “Deal gently with us, ye who read!” ...

A new, sparkly, modernized adaptation of “The Buccaneers” was released on Nov. 8 on Apple TV+ and met with mostly positive reviews — it received a score of 76% on Rotten Tomatoes. The series, based on ...

Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author famous for novels set in the late 19th century, also wrote an influential book on interior design, long considered a sort of bible of American decorating ...