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A Short Biography of Edna Ferber

Author Name:

Edna Ferber

Born As:

Other Names:

Edna Ferber

Born:

15 Oct 1885

Died:

16 Apr 1968




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Novelist and member of the Algonquin Wits                          
Selected Works:

Dawn O'Hara - 1911
Buttered Side Down - 1912
Roast Beef, Medium - Frederick A Stokes Company, 1913
Personality Plus - 1914
Emma Mc Chesney and Co. - 1915
Our Mrs. McChesney - 1915 - with George V. Hobart
Fanny Herself - 1917
Cheerful - By Request - 1918
Half Portions - 1919
The Girls - Edna Ferber novel - 1921
Gigolo - 1922
So Big - 1924 -  won Pulitzer Prize
Minick: A Play - 1924 - with G. S. Kaufman
Show Boat - 1926
Stage Door - 1926
The Royal Family - 1927 - with G. S. Kaufman
Cimarron - 1929
American Beauty - 1931
Dinner at Eight - 1932 - with G. S. Kaufman
They Brought Their Women - 1933
Come and Get It - 1935
Nobody's in Town - 1938
A Peculiar Treasure - 1939
The Land Is Bright - 1941
Saratoga Trunk - 1941
No Room at the Inn - 1941
Great Son - 1945
Saratoga Trunk - 1945 - with Casey Robinson
Bravo - 1949 - with G. S. Kaufman
Giant - 1952
Ice Palace - 1958
A Kind of Magic - 1963

Musicals adapted from Ferber novels:

Show Boat - 1927 - music by Jerome Kern, lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld
Saratoga - musical - 1959 - music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, dramatized by Morton Da Costa
Giant - 2009 - music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa, book by Sybille Pearson.                          
Mother Julia Neumann
Father Jacob Charles Ferber.