On this day in 1937, expatriate Edith Wharton died in France, and ex-expatriate Ernest Hemingway didn't in New York. Wharton spent her last years in two palatial homes, one just north of Paris, the other just north of the Mediterranean. Her days had long since become those of a literary grande dame: tea, talk and motor tours in fin de siecle style, accompanied by Kenneth Clark and Bernard Berenson and the memory of Henry James. Not that she was forgotten: the novels continued to sell briskly, and recent dramatizations of The Old Maid (Pulitzer, 1935) and Ethan Frome had added yet more fame ... FULL STORY »
