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Edna Ferber Biography
Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on August 15, 1885. (Not 1887, as sometimes stated.) She would become a leading female American author who wrote a number of successful books, as well as plays. At age 12, Ferber and her family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and briefly attended Lawrence University. She took jobs at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal before publishing her first novel. She covered the 1920 Republican and Democratic national conventions for the United Press Association. Her novels generally featured a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highlighted at least one strong secondary character who faced discrimination ethnically or for other reasons; this enabled her to show that people are people, and that often the non-pretty have the best character. Due to her imagination in scene, characterization, and plot, several movies have been made based on her works: Show Boat (a musical featuring Paul Robeson's marvelous rendition of "Old Man River"), Giant (starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean), Saratoga Trunk, Cimarron (which won an Oscar), and the 1960 remake. In 1925, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book So Big. She 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. Edna Ferber died on April 16, 1968, at her home in New York City. The New York Times said, "she was among the best-read novelists in the nation, and critics of the 1920s and '30s did not hesitate to call her the greatest American woman novelist of her day." |
Edna Ferber Famous QuoteChristmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.More famous quotes by Edna Ferber Edna Ferber NewsREVIEW: Take a Ride on Signature's 'Showboat' Broadway World The Signature has had a nice relationship with novelist Edna Ferber. Last season, they took her novel "Giant" and turned it into a musical. ... Willem Dafoe, The Royal Family, Street Lights' Kevin Curtis, and More Set For ... Broadway World Another episode of the show, airing only on CUNY TV, will feature George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's classic comedy, The Royal Family, now being revive... Theater Listings: Nov. 20 ? 26 New York Times (Isherwood) ? 'THE ROYAL FAMILY' This unevenly cast, sumptuous-looking revival of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1927 portrait of a theatrical dynasty ... Literature Students See History Up Close Saratoga.com English teacher Kathryn Flanders said this opportunity went well with the curriculum as the students are currently reading Saratoga Trunk by Edna Ferber ... Washington Post A musical revival navigates new currents Washington Post Heretofore, staging the musical, derived from Edna Ferber's 1926 novel, has been a prohibitively expensive proposition for some companies. ... Washington Post Alexandria-Arlington Going Out Guide: Signature Theatre's 'Show Boat' Washington Post This time it's Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1927 show based on the novel by Edna Ferber. If the pedigree isn't enough to persuade you to g... Stage Door: The Royal Family, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Memphis Huffington Post (blog) The revival of the George Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy The Royal Family is sheer perfection. A charming send-up of the illustrious Barrymores, theatrical and ... and m... Author at Hickory Stick Litchfield County Times ... journalism, humor and silliness sprang from the prolific pens of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Robert Sherwood, Edna Ferber, Alexander Woollcott, ... "Giant" Steps for Ashley Robinson After "R & J" Hartford Courant The South Carolina-born Robinson was in the musical version of Edna Ferber's "Giant" which premiered in May at Virginia's Signature Theater (not to be ... New York Times Theater Listings: Nov. 13-20 New York Times (Isherwood) ? 'THE ROYAL FAMILY' This unevenly cast, sumptuous-looking revival of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1927 portrait of a theatrical dynasty ... and more » | |||||
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