August 15, 1885 (1885-08-15) Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
Died
April 16, 1968 (1968-04-17) (aged 82) New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist, playwright
Education
Lawrence University
Genre
Drama, romance
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1925)
Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story "Old Man Minick", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go.
EdnaFerber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on EdnaFerber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives...
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and industrial designer Noël Coward, playwright Blyth Daly, actress EdnaFerber, author and playwright Eva Le Gallienne, actress Stephen Courtleigh Broadway...
film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by EdnaFerber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters' names...
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list of American plays: $1200 a Year: A Comedy in Three Acts (1920), by EdnaFerber and Newman Levy 45 Seconds from Broadway (2001), by Neil Simon 8 (2011)...
Estleman (born 1952) Wade Everett, (pseudonym of Will Cook, Giles A. Lutz) EdnaFerber (1885–1968) Norman A. Fox (1911–1960) Ron Franscell (born 1957) Brian...
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Vyver 2009 Carol Atkins Grace Lee Boggs Margaret Chandler Ruth Ellis EdnaFerber Glenda Lappan Kay Givens McGowan Elizabeth Phillips Jessica Rickert Betty...
American Beauty may refer to: American Beauty (Ferber novel), a 1931 novel by EdnaFerber American Beauty (Dean novel), a 2006 novel by Zoey Dean in the...
Oliver H.P. Garrett 1930/31 (4th) Cimarron Howard Estabrook The novel by EdnaFerber The Criminal Code Seton I. Miller & Fred Niblo Jr. The play by Martin...
group being dubbed the "Algonquin Round Table", with members including EdnaFerber, actress Tallulah Bankhead, Harpo Marx and others. Daly, never what was...
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