Edna Ferber

American novelist and short story writer Edna Ferber (1885-1968) grew up in Michigan and Wisconsin, and her fiction faithfully recaptures middle-class life in the American Midwest during the 1920s and 30s. In addition to her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel So Big, she wrote Showboat, Giant, and Saratoga Trunk, all of which were adapted for the screen. Ferber associated with the literary luminaries of the Algonquin Round Table, and she collaborated with George S. Kaufmann on the plays Dinner at...See more

American novelist and short story writer Edna Ferber (1885-1968) grew up in Michigan and Wisconsin, and her fiction faithfully recaptures middle-class life in the American Midwest during the 1920s and 30s. In addition to her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel So Big, she wrote Showboat, Giant, and Saratoga Trunk, all of which were adapted for the screen. Ferber associated with the literary luminaries of the Algonquin Round Table, and she collaborated with George S. Kaufmann on the plays Dinner at Eight and Stage Door. See less