The biography that first introduced me to Edith Wharton was Shari Benstock’s  No Gifts From Chance (1994).  From there, I worked my way back to R.W.B. Lewis’ Edith Wharton; A Biography (1975) and then forward to Hermione Lee’s Edith Wharton (2007).  By the time I’d devoured these three books I was grabbing anyone I met… [Read More]