1862 - 1937
Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age of Innocence. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edith Wharton has received more than 2,769,137 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Edith Wharton is the 1,073rd most popular writer (down from 1,048th in 2019), the 1,291st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,187th in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Writer.
Edith Wharton is best known for her novels, such as "The House of Mirth" and "Ethan Frome."
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Among writers, Edith Wharton ranks 1,073 out of 5,755. Before her are Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Madeleine de Scudéry, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Marcel Pagnol, Sulpicius Severus, and Mercè Rodoreda. After her are Egeria, Cai Yan, Sergey Mikhalkov, Heinrich Kramer, Nikolay Nekrasov, and August Kubizek.
64 BC - 8
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,067
1607 - 1701
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 1,068
1427 - 1482
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,069
1895 - 1974
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,070
360 - 420
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 1,071
1908 - 1983
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 1,072
1862 - 1937
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 1,073
310 - Present
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 1,074
177 - 250
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,075
1913 - 2009
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,076
1430 - 1505
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 1,077
1821 - 1878
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 1,078
1888 - 1956
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 1,079
Among people born in 1862, Edith Wharton ranks 32. Before her are Prince Henry of Prussia, Victor, Prince Napoléon, Loie Fuller, Mary Kingsley, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, and Mori Ōgai. After her are Siegbert Tarrasch, Aurel Stein, Silvio Gesell, Maurice Barrès, Georges Feydeau, and Ugyen Wangchuck. Among people deceased in 1937, Edith Wharton ranks 36. Before her are Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Emilio Mola, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Gustaf Dalén, Albert Roussel, and Wallace Carothers. After her are Pavel Florensky, Louis Vierne, Georgy Pyatakov, Keke Geladze, Bessie Smith, and Ray Ewry.
1862 - 1929
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 26
1862 - 1926
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 27
1862 - 1928
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 28
1862 - 1900
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 29
1862 - 1959
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 30
1862 - 1922
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 31
1862 - 1937
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 32
1862 - 1934
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 33
1862 - 1943
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 34
1862 - 1930
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 35
1862 - 1923
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 36
1862 - 1921
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 37
1862 - 1926
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 38
1868 - 1937
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 30
1887 - 1937
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 31
1858 - 1937
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 32
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 33
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 34
1896 - 1937
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 35
1862 - 1937
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 36
1882 - 1937
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 37
1870 - 1937
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 38
1890 - 1937
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 39
1858 - 1937
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 40
1894 - 1937
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 41
1873 - 1937
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 42
Among people born in United States, Edith Wharton ranks 1,291 out of 18,182. Before her are James Garner (1928), Henry Gantt (1861), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Annette Bening (1958), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), and Grandma Moses (1860). After her are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), Shelley Duvall (1949), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Aaron Copland (1900), and Dean Reed (1938).
1928 - 2014
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,285
1861 - 1919
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,286
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,287
1958 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,288
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 1,289
1860 - 1961
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 1,290
1862 - 1937
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 1,291
1899 - 1980
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 1,292
1923 - 2020
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,293
1949 - Present
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,294
1949 - Present
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,295
1900 - 1990
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,296
1938 - 1986
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,297
Among writers born in United States, Edith Wharton ranks 130. Before her are Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), Fredric Brown (1906), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Joan Didion (1934), Irwin Shaw (1913), and Cormac McCarthy (1933). After her are Nora Roberts (1950), Harry Harrison (1925), Virginia Henderson (1897), Michael Connelly (1956), Ken Kesey (1935), and Rex Stout (1886).
1876 - 1972
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 124
1906 - 1972
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 125
1903 - 1987
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 126
1934 - 2021
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 127
1913 - 1984
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 128
1933 - 2023
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 129
1862 - 1937
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 130
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 131
1925 - 2012
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 132
1897 - 1996
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 133
1956 - Present
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 134
1935 - 2001
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 135
1886 - 1975
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 136