“Eighty years after Edith Wharton’s death, we continue to live in a time where “society is imposing restrictions and conventions on women.”
-- Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence Christene Barberich
The Mount has announced the recipients of the 2017 Edith Wharton Writers-in-Residence: Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and co-founder of the lifestyle media company Refinery29; author and screenwriter Donna M. Lucey; and award-winning novelist Vanessa Manko.