edna ferber

     

Her career as a novelist dawned with "Dawn O'Hara"; "Show Boat" showed up later

Trivia about edna ferber

  • This "Giant" novelist tried to burn her first novel, "Dawn O'Hara"; luckily, her mom stopped her
  • In 1925 she won a really big prize, the Pulitzer Prize, for her novel "So Big"
  • A "Giant" among American women novelists, she wrote the play "Stage Door" with George S. Kaufman
  • "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" included Lili Taylor as this "Show Boat" author
  • "Ice Palace"(1958)
  • Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel "Giant"
  • "Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing", wrote this author of "Show Boat"
  • This Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist co-wrote the play "Dinner at Eight" with George S. Kaufman
  • We don't know if this novelist was "So Big" at her Aug. 15, 1887 birth, but we do know it was in a zoo: Kalamazoo