New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)

Edith Wharton, a prominent American novelist, masterfully depicted the lives and morals of the Gilded Age, drawing from her experiences within New York's upper class. She made history as the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature in 1921 for The Age of Innocence. Wharton's prolific career includes 15 novels, seven novellas, and numerous short stories, alongside works on design, travel, and literary criticism. Despite starting her novel-writing journey at forty, she left a lasting legacy in American literature and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.