The Custom of the Country

About Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (Author) Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862 during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth perhaps her most famous work appeared in 1905 and was followed by Ethan Frome The Custom of the Country Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.Sofia Coppola (Foreword By) Sofia Coppola is a director producer and screenwriter known for films includingVirgin Suicides (1999) Lost in Translation (2003) Marie Antoinette (2006) TheBling Ring (2013) Beguiled (2017) and On the Rocks (2020). She won the 2004Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation. She iscurrently writing and directing a limited series adaptation of The Custom of theCountry for Apple TV.