Object Details
Issue Name
1980 Literary Arts Series Issue (Edith Wharton)
Description
In 1921, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize, awarded for her novel The Age of Innocence. In that work and many others, Wharton portrayed a moneyed, materialistic society whose conventions restricted and destroyed the desires of its members. Though best known as an American novelist, Wharton, who spent most of her adult life in France, also received the French Legion of Honor for her extensive work helping refugees and others during World War I.
The Edith Wharton stamp was issued in 1980. It is part of the Literary Arts Series.
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Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
September 5, 1980
Object number
1999.2004.142
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (purple); adhesive / engraving
Place
United States of America
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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Literature
Women's Heritage
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_1999.2004.142