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Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Age of Innocence" in 1921.
Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of Innocence, in 1921.
Edith Wharton wrote a number of novels during her lifetime. Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was a writer from 1899-1938, though she passed away in 1937. She was the first female to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, in 1921, for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Edith Wharton finished writing The Age of Innocence in 1920, during her stay in France. The book was published the same year and got the Pulitzer prize in 1921.
The Pulitzer Prize(s) was first awarded in 1917. Contrary to popular belief, there is more than one Pulitzer given each year. Prizes are awarded for a number of subcategories under both Journalism and Letters, Drama and Music.
Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his novella, The Old Man and the Sea, then won a Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1954. He committed suicide in 1960, after a long struggle with depression.
Pultizer Prize for Age of Innocence in 1921
MacKinlay Kantor won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Andersonville.Other books that won Pulitzers in 1956:Drama: Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances GoodrichHistory: The Age of Reform by Richard HofstadterBiography or Autobiography: Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
The Pulitzer prize winning poet and author Rita Dove died at the age of 61.