Our book this month is The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton. We will be discussing the book in person on July 27, 2019 at Arden Dimick Library, at 10:30AM.

Here are a few facts about Edith Wharton:

She loved dogs.

She had a horrible relationship with her mother.

She grew up in the atmosphere of Age of Innocence. Her family inspired the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses”

She lived from 1862 – 1937.

Though deeply conservative, she ran with the fast set of artists after WWI.

Unlike other Americans, she stayed in Paris through WWI and did war work.

She was a decorator and designer.

She was not allowed to read novels until after she married. Her marriage, to a banker, was an unhappy one and they divorced in 1913.

She died of a stroke at the age of 75.