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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


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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Average rating: 3.99 · 21,835 ratings · 2,634 reviews · 207 distinct works â€� Similar authors
So Big
4.08 avg rating — 11,834 ratings — published 1924
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Giant
4.02 avg rating — 3,682 ratings — published 1952
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Show Boat
3.83 avg rating — 1,023 ratings — published 1926 — 150 editions
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Cimarron
3.79 avg rating — 842 ratings — published 1929 — 85 editions
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Saratoga Trunk
3.71 avg rating — 797 ratings — published 1941 — 3 editions
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Fanny Herself
3.98 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 1917 — 291 editions
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Ice Palace
3.53 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 1958 — 26 editions
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Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who L...
3.84 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1911 — 121 editions
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Roast Beef Medium: The Busi...
3.88 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1913 — 181 editions
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3.73 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1926 — 8 editions
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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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