Edith Wharton’s Death – Cause and Date

Edith Wharton Death Cause and Date

Born (Birthday) January 24, 1862

Death Date August 11, 1937

Age of Death 75 years

Cause of Death Stroke

Profession Novelist

The novelist Edith Wharton died at the age of 75. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American novelist whose best known works include The Age of Innocence (1920), Ethan Frome (1911), and The House of Mirth (1905). Her popular novels, known for their dramatic irony, earned her the Pulitzer Prize and multiple Nobel Prize nominations.

She and her two brothers were born into a prominent New York City family. In 1885, she married Teddy Robbins Wharton, who increasingly suffered from severe mental illness. The couple divorced in 1913.

Quotes

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There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

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When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton Death Cause and Date