One might think that R.W.B. Lewis's excellent 1975 biography had precluded the need for another book about Edith Wharton. Not so. Reading Lee's superb new biography is akin to comparing a fine ...

LENOX — The Mount hosted more than 60 members of its National Committee for the release of "Edith Wharton in France," a new biography of Edith Wharton by deceased French scholar and author Claudine ...

R.W.B. Lewis, the literary critic and Yale scholar who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his biography of Edith Wharton, died on Thursday at his home in Bethany, Conn. He was 84. Professor Lewis taught ...

Since Edith Wharton's death in 1937, biographies of the great early 20th-century novelist have gone through several perhaps predictable phases: sanitized, slightly dismissive, even vindictive (by her ...

Lee's magisterial biography of the novelist Edith Wharton is not only an important contribution to American literary studies; it also offers students of U.S. foreign policy useful insights into how ...

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862–August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in ...

Edith Wharton has written 6 shows including The Joy of Living (Playwright), The House of Mirth (Playwright), The Custom of the Country (Source Material), Summer (Source Material), Lily (Source ...

Had James W. Tuttleton attempted to verify his allegations about me in his zealous defense of R.W.B. Lewis (March 1989), he would have discovered the inaccuracy of his assumptions about my work on ...