"Edith Wliarton's Abuser" Kenneth S. Lynn, in The American Spectator (Dec. 1993),2020 N. 14th St., Ste. 750, Arlington, Va. 22216.
R. W. B. Lewis's Edith Wharton: A Biography (1975) won the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize and is the work upon which other com- mentators on the author of Ethan Frame (1911), The Age of Innocence (1920), and other famous novels now rely. Lynn, a literary biographer and erstwhile professor, charges that the Yale Uni- versity professor's work is a scandal-ridden...