Edith Wharton, Woman of Style, Substance and Soul
Totally hooked by classics like The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, we already knew literary master Edith Wharton had substance. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Wharton nailed the hypocrisy of upper class conventionality with her scathing portraits of the turn-of-the-century New York society into which she was born as…