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Edna Ferber

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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: 4.0 · 23,859 ratings · 2,879 reviews · 294 distinct works • Similar authors
So Big
4.08 avg rating — 13,118 ratings — published 1924 — 258 editions
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Giant
4.02 avg rating — 4,000 ratings — published 1952 — 117 editions
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Show Boat
3.84 avg rating — 1,081 ratings — published 1926 — 117 editions
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Cimarron
3.82 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 1929 — 107 editions
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Saratoga Trunk
3.73 avg rating — 839 ratings — published 1941 — 2 editions
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Fanny Herself
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 1917 — 51 editions
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Ice Palace
3.53 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1958 — 26 editions
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Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who L...
3.83 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1911 — 3 editions
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Roast Beef Medium: The Busi...
3.88 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1913 — 186 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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Polls

April 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1927, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 209 pages
 
  32 votes, 18.1%

 
  28 votes, 15.8%

 
  18 votes, 10.2%

1961, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 346 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.6%

1969, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages
 
  13 votes, 7.3%

 
  11 votes, 6.2%

 
  10 votes, 5.6%

 
  9 votes, 5.1%

 
  9 votes, 5.1%

1963, The Clocks by Agatha Christie, 381 pages
 
  9 votes, 5.1%

1900, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 455 pages
 
  6 votes, 3.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 220 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1969, them by Joyce Carol Oates, 576 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

1962, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, 256 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

 
  1 vote, 0.6%

1929, Cimarron by Edna Ferber, 400 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

177 total votes
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