Η Ίντιθ Γουόρτον (γενν. Edith Newbold Jones, 24 Ιανουαρίου 1862 – 11 Αυγούστου 1937) ήταν Αμερικανίδα μυθιστοριογράφος, συγγραφέας μικρών ιστοριών, θεατρική συγγραφέας και σχεδιάστρια. Με βάση τις γνώσεις της για την ανώτερη τάξη της Νέας Υόρκης παρουσίασε με ρεαλιστικό τρόπο την ζωή και την ηθική της αμερικανικής ζωής των τελών του 19ου αιώνα. Το 1921 ήταν η πρώτη γυναίκα που κέρδισε το Πούλιτζερ Λογοτεχνίας. Μπήκε στο National Women's Hall of Fame το 1996.
Μυθιστορήματα
- The Valley of Decision, 1902
- The House of Mirth, 1905
- The Fruit of the Tree, 1907
- The Reef, 1912
- The Custom of the Country, 1913
- The Triumph of Night, 1916
- Summer, 1917
- The Marne, 1918
- The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner)
- The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922
- A Son at the Front, 1923
- The Mother's Recompense, 1925
- Twilight Sleep, 1927
- The Children, 1928
- Hudson River Bracketed, 1929
- The Gods Arrive, 1932
- The Buccaneers, 1938 (unfinished)
Νουβέλες
- The Touchstone, 1900
- Sanctuary, 1903
- Madame de Treymes, 1907
- Ethan Frome, 1911
- Bunner Sisters, 1916
- Old New York, 1924
1. False Dawn; 2. The Old Maid; 3. The Spark; 4. New Year's Day - Fast and Loose: A Novelette, 1938 (written in 1876–1877)
Ποίηση
- Verses, 1878
- Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, 1909
- Twelve Poems, 1926
Συλλογή μικρών ιστοριών
- The Greater Inclination, 1899, includes Souls Belated.
- Crucial Instances, 1901
- The Descent of Man and Other Stories, 1904
- The Other Two, 1904
- The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories, 1908
- Tales of Men and Ghosts, 1910
- Xingu and Other Stories, 1916
- Here and Beyond, 1926
- Certain People, 1930
- Human Nature, 1933
- The World Over, 1936
- Ghosts, 1937
- Roman Fever and Other Stories, 1964
- Madame de Treymes and Others: Four Novelettes, 1970
- The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, 1973
- The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton, 1998 (Carroll & Graf Publishers; paperback, 640 pages)
- The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, 2007
Non-fiction
- The Decoration of Houses, 1897
- Italian Villas and Their Gardens, 1904
- Italian Backgrounds, 1905
- A Motor-Flight Through France, 1908 (travel)
- Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, 1915 (war)
- French Ways and Their Meaning, 1919
- In Morocco, 1920 (travel)
- The Writing of Fiction, 1925 (essays on writing)
- A Backward Glance, 1934 (autobiography)
- Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings, Edited by Frederick Wegener, 1996
- Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888–1920, 1995, Edited by Sarah Bird Wright
Ως εκδότης
- The Book of the Homeless, 1916
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