1968
Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1885)
Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1885)
Edna Ferber
American novelist and playwright (1885–1968)
- Died
- 1968
Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant 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.