By JeffV editor Many aspiring novelists toil for years on manuscripts, while working low paid day jobs to make ends meet.
For the lucky few, however, a best-seller brings with it fame and financial freedom. While not all become multi-millionaires, literary success allows successful writers the freedom to live in their ideal creative domiciles. Edith Wharton — Newport, R.I. Novelist and short story writer, Edith Wharton, didn’t have to deal with the hardships of poverty as she was born into an affluent New York family.
Best known for her novel “The Age of Innocence,” which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Wharton’s former oceanfront estate in Newport, R.I., an 11,000-square-foot behemoth with eight bedrooms and three bathrooms just sold for
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