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Edna Ferber

Born

in Kalamazoo, Michigan, The United States

August 15, 1885

Died

April 16, 1968

Genre

Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

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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 (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1929; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), and Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie).

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 (Neumann) 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. ...more

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	So Big 4.07 avg rating — 11,393 ratings — published 1924 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giant 4.02 avg rating — 3,545 ratings — published 1952 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Show Boat 3.84 avg rating — 998 ratings — published 1926 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cimarron 3.78 avg rating — 817 ratings — published 1929 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saratoga Trunk 3.72 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 1941 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fanny Herself 3.98 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1917 — 282 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ice Palace 3.52 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1958 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed 3.84 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1911 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roast Beef Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney 3.87 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1913 — 171 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stage Door by Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman 3.73 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1926 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Emma McChesney Series (3 books)
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American Biography (2 books)
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“Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.”
― Edna Ferber

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“But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.”
― Edna Ferber, So Big

tags: gardening, optimism

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“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”
― Edna Ferber

tags: on-writing, writing

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The Moonflower Vine, by Jetta Carleton

18 votes 30.0%

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Ann Jacobs

15 votes 25.0%

Giant, by Edna Ferber

10 votes 16.7%

Paper Moon, by Joe David Brown

9 votes 15.0%

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

6 votes 10.0%

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, by John Fox Jr.

2 votes 3.3%

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