Edith Wharton
FAIN: GN-10569-78
Center for Documentary Media (New York, NY 10036-5600)
Jack L. Willis (Project Director: November 1977 to present)
To produce a series of 5 one-hour dramatic films on the life and literary career of Edith Wharton. Three scripts are based on R. W. B. Lewis' Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Edith Wharton, her novels and short stories, poems, letters, diaries. The fourth is an adaptation of The House of Mirth; the fifth, an adaptation of Summer.