Ferber, Edna, 1887–1968, American author, b. Kalamazoo, Mich. Her novels portray the lives of a wide variety of Americans in a vigorous, colorful, and panoramic fashion. Among her best-known novels are So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize), Show Boat (1926, musical version 1927), Cimarron (1929), Saratoga Trunk (1941), Giant (1952), and Ice Palace (1958). Ferber also collaborated with George S. Kaufman Kaufman, George S. (George Simon Kaufman) , 1889–1961, American dramatist and journalist, b. Pittsburgh. As a drama critic for various New York newspapers he was influential in raising the standards of criticism in the theater.
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Ferber, Edna

(born Aug. 15, 1887, Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S.—died April 16, 1968, New York, N.Y.) U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Ferber began her career at age 17 as a reporter in Wisconsin. Her early stories were collected in Emma McChesney & Co. (1915) and other volumes. She won critical acclaim for such novels as So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize) and Show Boat (1926), which, with music by Jerome Kern, became a seminal work of the American musical theatre. Among her later works is the novel Giant (1952; film, 1956). Her works offer a compassionate, lively portrait of middle-class Midwestern America.

Ferber, Edna (1885–1968) writer; born in Kalamazoo, Mich. A midwestern reporter, she moved to New York City in 1912. She is remembered for her popular fiction featuring strong heroines as in So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize) and Giant (1952); Show Boat (1926), which was transformed into a classic musical; and several witty stage comedies written in collaboration with George S. Kaufman including Dinner at Eight (1932) and Stage Door (1936).

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