Edith Wharton Facts

1. Edith and Edward Warton were married for 28 years, until thy divorced. She said it was her "greatest mistake" to marry him.

2. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

3. She was good friends with Theodore Roosevelt

4. In 1902, she built "The Mount", which was her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts

5. She was one of the few foreigners allowed to go onto the French frontlines during WWII.