Edith Wharton A to Z: The Essential Guide to the Life and Work

by Sarah Bird Wright, Clare Colquitt (Foreword)

Edith Wharton A to Z is an encyclopedic reference to Wharton's life and work. Comprehensive in scope, it features individual entries for the following categories of Novels and short stories, travel writing, poetry, criticism, including reviews of books and plays, and foreign translations of her works.
Entries also cover Wharton's family, friends, and acquaintances; places that figure prominently in Wharton's letters, autobiography, and travel writing; Wharton's publishers, editors, and the periodicals for which she wrote; organizations and institutions Wharton joined or supported; honors, awards, and prizes Wharton the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Age of Innocence, an honorary doctorate from Yale University, and induction into the French Legion of Honor; critical and popular reception of her works; Wharton's literary influences and her influence on other writers.
The bibliography provides a complete list of Wharton's writings and a broad selection of secondary sources.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

330 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Sarah Bird Wright is an independent scholar.

Reviews

[David Hovland]

EXCELLENT biography of a GREAT writer.