Wharton, Edith: - Edith Wharton was an American author and designer. Wharton used her personal knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to convincingly depict the lives and morality of the Gilded Age. Her novel The Age of Innocence earned her the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1921, making her the first woman to receive it. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works include The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and other renowned ghost stories. On January 24, 1862, George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander gave birth to Edith Newbold Jones at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. Her friends and family referred to her as "Pussy Jones". She has two older brothers: Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. Frederic married Mary Cadwalader Rawle, and their daughter was landscape architect Beatrix Farrand. Edith was christened on April 20, 1862, Easter Sunday, at Grace Church.