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Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937), is considered one of the most important American novelists and short story writers of the 20th century.
She was living on the very fashionable rue de Varenne in Paris, France when World War I began, and, using her many high level connections within the French government, she was allowed to travel extensively by motorcar to the front lines.
Wharton was friend and confidant of many gifted intellectuals of her time: Theodore Roosevelt, F Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway were all guests of hers at one time or another.
From 1907 on, Wharton made her primary residence in France - first Paris, and, after 1919, at her villas, Pavilion Colombe in nearby Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt and former convent Sainte-Claire le Château in the southern village Hyères.
Wharton was friend and confidant of many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau and Ernest Hemingway were all guests of hers at one time or another.
Wharton's last novel, The Buccaneers, was unfinished at the time of her death.