Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, was an American author best known for her stories and novels depicting the upper-class society into which she was born (born January 24, 1862, New York, New Yor..
Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence came out in 1920. The book paints a portrait of late 19th-century upper-class life in New York City. The novel presents itself as an anthropological examinat..