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Edna Ferber

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Born: August 14 1885

Died: 1515 04 19681968

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were popular in her lifetime and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big , Show Boat , Cimarron , and Giant .

Ferber was born August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper, Jacob Charles Ferber, and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Julia Ferber. At the age of 12, after living in Chicago, Illinois and Ottumwa, Iowa, Ferber and her family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and briefly attended Lawrence University. She took newspaper jobs at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal before publishing her first novel. She covered the 1920 Republican National Convention and 1920 Democratic National Convention for the United Press Association.

Ferber's novels generally featured strong female protagonists, along with a rich and diverse collection of supporting characters. She usually highlighted at least one strong secondary character who faced discrimination ethnically or for other reasons; through this technique, Ferber demonstrated her belief that people are people and that the not-so-pretty people have the best character.

Ferber was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of wits who met for lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.

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Edna Ferber

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Books from Edna Ferber

Giant

Show Boat

Cimarron

So Big

Saratoga Trunk

Fanny Herself

Ice Palace

Roast Beef Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed

Dinner at Eight: A Play in Three Acts

Personality Plus: Some Experiences Of Emma McChesney And Her Son, Jock

Bon Bons, Bourbon and Bon Mots: Stories from the Algonquin Round Table

The Works of Edna Ferber

Hemmed In

SO BIG

Wanton: Stories of Wonderfully Shameless Women

One Tough Cookie: Stories About Strong Women

Gigolo

Cheerful—By Request Illustrated

Cheerful—By Request