One might think that R.W.B. Lewis's excellent 1975 biography had precluded the need for another book about Edith Wharton. Not so. Reading Lee's superb new biography is akin to comparing a fine ...

Since Edith Wharton's death in 1937, biographies of the great early 20th-century novelist have gone through several perhaps predictable phases: sanitized, slightly dismissive, even vindictive (by her ...

This week in the magazine, Jonathan Franzen writes about three of his favorite Edith Wharton novels. Here Franzen talks with Blake Eskin about Wharton's biography, her fascination with money and ...

LENOX — The Mount hosted more than 60 members of its National Committee for the release of "Edith Wharton in France," a new biography of Edith Wharton by deceased French scholar and author Claudine ...

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Had James W. Tuttleton attempted to verify his allegations about me in his zealous defense of R.W.B. Lewis (March 1989), he would have discovered the inaccuracy of his assumptions about my work on ...