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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 York, U.S.—died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France). Edith Jones was born into a renowned and well-known New York family. She was taught at home and in Europe, where the family lived for six years following the American Civil War, by private tutors and governesses, and she was an avid reader.