Edna Ferber - Wikipedia
Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.
Edna Ferber | Jewish Women's Archive
Until she died on April 16, 1968, in New York City, Edna Ferber’s idea of “the ultimate in exciting luxury” still mimicked the early experience of the parade-watching child on Main Street in Ottumwa.
Edna Ferber | Novelist, Pulitzer Prize, Showboat | Britannica
Edna Ferber (born August 15, 1885, Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.—died April 16, 1968, New York, New York) was an American novelist and short-story writer who wrote with compassion and curiosity about Midwestern American life. Ferber grew up mostly in her native Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in Appleton, Wisconsin (in between her family moved to ...
Edna Ferber - The Historical Marker Database
2017年11月18日 · The widely-read novelist, short story writer, and playwright, best known for the novel Giant (1952), lived here from 1923 to 1929. (A historical marker located in Manhattan in New York County, New York.)
Ferber, Edna (1887–1968) - TSHA
1995年1月1日 · She died on April 16, 1968, a few months before her eighty-first birthday. At her funeral service in New York City, she was eulogized as "a gallant, dauntless, irrepressible champion" of "great causes." Her body was cremated.
Show Boat (novel) - Wikipedia
Show Boat is a 1926 novel by American author and dramatist Edna Ferber. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River, from the …
Edna Ferber Revisited - JSTOR Daily
2023年1月18日 · Although she had settled in New York by the mid-1920s, she returned to Chicago frequently and continued to draw upon its people and neighborhoods, including in The Girls, which, in its span from the Civil War to World War I, uses its three Charlottes to depict and critique the city’s conventional, status-driven social circles.
Edna Ferber
Perhaps less well-known today than in her own time, Edna Ferber was a prolific writer. Her works include twelve novels and eight plays, a selection of novellas and short stories, and two autobiographies. Today, however, her works are largely remembered for …
Ferber, Edna (1885–1968) - Encyclopedia.com
Pulitzer Prize-winning American author of Showboat, So Big, and Giant, whose novels examine American values and culture, especially their impact on women. Born on August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan; died on April 17, 1968, in New York City, of cancer; daughter of Jacob and Julia (Foster) Ferber; had one sister, Fanny; never married; no ...
1925 Pulitzer Prize Review: So Big by Edna Ferber
2019年8月29日 · Published in 1924, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1925, So Big is a book that strives to find beauty in the ordinary. It rejects modern materialism while seeking to expose American capitalist orthodoxy for its empty promise of …