Which American novelist wrote 'The House of Mirth'?

The American novelist who wrote The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton.

Published in 1905, the novel follows Lily Bart, a beautiful but financially vulnerable woman navigating New York society. Lily is expected to marry wealth and status, yet her pursuit of security collides with social conventions, gossip, debt, and her own desire for independence.

Wharton drew on her detailed knowledge of the wealthy social world into which she had been born. The novel is often classified as a tragedy, a social satire, and a novel of manners because it combines a tightly observed portrait of privilege with a bleak account of how that society treats women who fail to conform.

The House of Mirth was serialized in Scribner's Magazine before appearing as a book. It quickly became a commercial success and established Wharton as a major American novelist. Readers sometimes confuse Wharton with Henry James because both wrote sophisticated fiction about class and expatriate society, but this novel is unambiguously Wharton's work.