Happy Birthday to Edith Wharton, First Lady of Scribner
Today is the 150th Anniversary of Wharton’s birth (that’s 1862, English majors).
She was employed by Scribner’s Magazine to report on World War I, and was one of the few foreigners allowed to travel through France to the front lines.
She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, for The Age of Innocence, in 1921.
She is buried in the American Cemetery, in Versailles.
She once said,
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
