Pomegranate Seed | Author Biography
Born Edith Newbold Jones in 1862, Edith Wharton was a member of the New York leisure class that would become the subject of much of her fiction. Few American women obtained university educations in the decades when Wharton was coming of age; her schooling was conducted by private tutors employed by her parents.
As a child, this future practitioner of the supernatural tale had a terrible fear of ghosts and ghost stories. In an essay entitled ‘‘Life and I’’ Wharton reminisced that ‘‘till I was twenty seven or eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a...
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