Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the ?rst woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton a lso was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. “Tales of Men and Ghosts” is a collection of ten masterful ghost stories like “The Bolted Door,” “His Father’s Son,” “The Daunt Diana,” and “Full Circle.”