The Resume

(January 24, 1862-August 11, 1937)
Born in New York City, New York
Birth name was Edith Newbold Jones
Novelist, poet and short story writer
Wrote 'The House of Mirth' (1905), 'Ethan Fromme' (1911), 'The Reef' (1912) and 'The Age of Innocence' (1920)

Why she might be annoying:

She came from a family so rich that they allegedly inspired the phrase 'keeping up with the Joneses.'
She called her marriage 'the biggest mistake of my life.'
She suffered a nervous breakdown after her divorce (1913).
She then moved to France and returned to the US only once, to accept an honorary degree from Yale (1923).

Why she might not be annoying:

She used some of her royalties to secretly support Henry James when he ran into financial difficulties.
She was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for her charitable work for refugees during World War I.
She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (1921).

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 24]
• Exiles
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [U-Z]
• I Died in 1937 (Ranked: 75)
• I Had a Nervous Breakdown
• I Have Asthma
• I Write Bildungsroman
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 69)
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 58)
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Older than Me
• National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read Selections [Authors] (Ranked: 2008)
• National Women's Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1996)
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 10)
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 94)
• Poets
• Profiles 26751-27000 (Ranked: 26933)
• Smithsonian’s 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time [2015] (Ranked: 4)
• UK Guardian's Peter Washington's Top 10 Ghost Stories [2008] (Ranked: 8)
• Writers Featured in the Barnes & Noble Authors Mural

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 56 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 23 Votes: 34.78% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 27 Votes: 37.04% Annoying