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"Edith Wharton's Journey" is a radio adaptation, for the NPR series Radio Tales, of the short story "A Journey" from Edith Wharton's collection The Greater Inclination. The American singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega paid homage to Edith Wharton in her song "Edith Wharton's Figurines" on her 2007 studio album Beauty & Crime .
It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. [1] Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters ' ". [2]
Wharton's eighth novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, making her the first woman to win the prestigious award. Set in the Gilded Age, The Age of Innocence is about New York society and the ...
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1921: Journalism awards Public ... The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ; Drama: Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale ; History: The ...
American author Edith Wharton published The Age of Innocence, in 1920, and a year later, she was the first woman to win the highly-coveted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding.The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Zoë Akins, which was adapted from the 1924 Edith Wharton novella The Old Maid: the Fifties (taken from the collection of novellas Old New York).
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Edith Newbold Jones Wharton. 1920 Marie Luhring was the first woman in America to become an automotive engineer. [73] 1921 Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for her novel The Age of Innocence). [74] Margaret Gorman was the first winner of Miss America beauty pageant. [75] [76]