what are three great acomplishments of Edith Wharton?

Question

I know she was an author but what else did she do?

Answer 1

During World War I she became fiercely dedicated to the Allied cause. She led the committee to aid refugees from northeastern France and Belgium, and created hostels and schools for them. She helped establish workrooms to employ women who had no means of support and raised funds for these projects. Traveling to the front lines to observe the fighting, Wharton wrote reports for publication in America and urged the United States to join the war effort.

She won the Pulitzer prize in 1921 for "The Age of Innocence" .

She was awarded an honorary degree from Yale in 1923.