It's the birthday of Edith Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City (1862). Her first great novel was The House of Mirth (1905), about the frustrated love affair between Lawrence Selden and a young woman named Lily Bart. She went on to write many more novels about frustrated love, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Age of Innocence (1920), which was the first novel written by a woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Edith Wharton said, "Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."
From The Writer's Almanac produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media.
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