Generally known as a novelist who deftly illustrated American life and culture in her popular fiction, Edna Ferber was always drawn to the stage. As a child she wanted to act, but she later realized that her talents were in the written word and...

Edna Ferber , popular and prolific novelist, short-story writer, autobiographer, and dramatic collaborator with George S. Kaufman, is remembered chiefly as a chronicler and critic of American cultural history--the bulk of her fiction having a strong...

Edna Ferber , best known today for her novels, was a short-story writer well before she was an acclaimed novelist. It was not until the appearance of So Big in 1924, after the publication of four novels, one play, and seven collections of stories, that...

Edna Ferber was one of the most popular Jewish-American women writers in history. She was a best-selling author as well as a critically successful one and the first Jewish-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for the novel. Not only was she widely...

American author Edna Ferber (1887-1968) wrote popular fiction and collaborated on several successful Broadway plays. Born in Kalamazoo, Mich., Edna Ferber at an early age moved with her family to Appleton, Wis., where she spent most of her childhood....