Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton.

It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer.

Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921.
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