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 ...

R.W.B. Lewis, the literary critic and Yale scholar who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his biography of Edith Wharton, died on Thursday at his home in Bethany, Conn. He was 84. Professor Lewis taught ...

Edith Wharton and Brooke Astor grew up more than a generation apart, and although they never met, their lives seem to touch. Both were grandes dames who hobnobbed with presidents (Wharton with Teddy ...

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 ...