Five Facts: Edith Wharton

* The saying "Keeping up with the Joneses" is said to refer to the family of her father.

* Wrote at least 85 short stories, and was also a highly regarded landscape architect, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time.

* First woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1921.

* The Beinecke Library at Yale University houses the Edith Wharton collection, which has some 50,000 items, consisting of letters, manuscripts, photographs, and miscellaneous personal items of hers. (Creeeeeepy.)

* Wharton continued writing until her death.