Born in an almost brand new country, the famous American writer and poet Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy family in New York in 1862. Although Edith was born In a richer class New York family, she could never support this lifestyle. Edith's writing began in the late 1890s, when she began to realize that the life she was leading was not for her. She married Edwards Robbins Wharton, a Boston banker with whom she spent her time in Rhode Island. Edith traveled extensively in Europe as a child and as an adult. It was during World War I that Wharton wrote. She moved to France while the World War was raging. She published books such as Madame de Treymes and Le Fruit de l'arbre, both in 1907. In 1911, she wrote La Maison de la joie. This story represented everything Wharton was trying to get across. The story had a farmer choosing happiness between preserving a social norm and she had that problem with her and Edwards. Edith Wharton is one of the greatest writers this country has ever known as she used her social and economic life as well as historical events...