Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) 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. (From Wikipedia) More about Edna Ferber:
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Books by Edna Ferber: Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968, contrib.: Aces: A Collection of Short Stories (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), ed. by New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, also contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Octavus Roy Cohen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zona Gale, Bruno Lessing, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Benjamin Sher, G. B. Stern, Thyra Samter Winslow, and Israel Zangwill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Buttered Side Down (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Cheerful, by Request (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Emma McChesney & Co. (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Fanny Herself (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Gigolo (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Half Portions (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968, contrib.: My Story That I Like Best (fifth edition; New York: International Magazine Co., 1925), ed. by Ray Long, also contrib. by Irvin S. Cobb, Peter B. Kyne, James Oliver Curwood, Meredith Nicholson, and H. C. Witwer Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: One Basket: Thirty-One Short Stories (selected public domain stories from the original collection) (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1914), illust. by James Montgomery Flagg (Gutenberg text and illustrateed HTML) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney (Gutenberg text) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Show Boat (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: So Big (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: So Big (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Additional books by Edna Ferber in the extended shelves: Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: $1200 a year : a comedy in three acts (S.B. Gundy, 1920), also by Newman Levy (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: $1200 a year; a comedy in three acts (Doubleday, Page & company, 1920), also by Newman Levy (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Among those present (E. Nash & Grayson, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Buttered side down (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Buttered side down; stories (Frederick A. Stokes, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Cheerful--by request (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1918), also by Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Cheerful by request (Doubleday, Page, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Cheerful, by request (Grosset & Dunlap, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Cimarron. (1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Dawn O'Hara, the girl who laughed (Grosset & Dunlap, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Dawn O'Hara : the girl who laughed (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Dawn O'Hara : the girl who laughed (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911), also by R. Ford Harper and Frederick A. Stokes Company (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Dawn O'Hara : the girl who laughed (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Dawn O'Hara, the girl who laughed. : Frontispiece in colors by R. Ford Harper. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: The eldest ; a drama of American life (New York ; London : D. Appleton and company, 1931., 1931) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Emma McChesney & co. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Emma McChesney & co. (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Fanny herself. (F.A. Stokes, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Fanny herself / by Edna Ferber ; illustrated by J. Henry. (Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Gigolo. (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1936) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Gigolo (Grosset & Dunlap, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Gigolo (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Gigolo (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922), also by Radcliffe College. Library (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: The girls. (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1936) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: The girls (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), also by Country Life Press and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: The girls (Literary Guild, 1936) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: The girls (Grosset and Dunlap, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: The girls (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Half portions (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Minick, a comedy in three acts (S. French; [etc., etc.], 1925), also by George S. Kaufman (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Mother knows best (Literary Guild, 1936) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Mother knows best; a fiction book (Grosset & Dunlap, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: My story that I like best ([International magazine co., inc.], 1927), also by H. C. Witwer, Meredith Nicholson, James Oliver Curwood, Peter B. Kyne, and Irvin S. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: My story that I like best ([International Magazine Co.], 1924), also by Ray Long, H. C. Witwer, Meredith Nicholson, James Oliver Curwood, Peter B. Kyne, and Irvin S. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Old man Minick : a short story (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1988), also by George S. Kaufman (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Personality plus; some experiences of Emma McChesney and her son, Jock (Grosset & Dunlap, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Personality plus; some experiences of Emma McChesney and her son, Jock (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1914) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Roast beef medium; the business adventures of Emma McChesney (Frederick A. Stokes, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Roast beef medium : the business adventures of Emma McChesney (Grosset & Dunlap, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: The royal family : a comedy in three acts (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1928), also by George S. Kaufman (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Show boat (Doubleday, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Show boat. (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1936) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Show boat (PolyGram Pub. Group :, in the 1990s), also by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Show boat (The Welk Music Group ;, 1970), also by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Show boat : vocal score (Welk Music Group ;, 1927), also by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: Show boat. vocal selection (PolyGram International ;, 1990), also by Jerome Kern, P. G. Wodehouse, and Oscar Hammerstein (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: So big. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: So Big (Doubleday, Page & company, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: So-Big : a novel (Fawcett Crest Books, 1973) (page images at HathiTrust) Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968: War stories (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1919), also by Roy Joseph Holmes, George Weston, Booth Tarkington, Robert W. Sneddon, Francis William Sullivan, George Palmer Putnam, Laura Spencer Porter, Will Payne, William Hamilton Osbourne, Gouverneur Morris, Donal Hamilton Haines, Margarita Spalding Gerry, Mary Mitchell Freedly, Gilbert Emery, James Francis Dwyer, Donn Byrne, Dana Burnet, Alden Brooks, Thomas Beer, A. Starbuck, and Thomas Y. Crowell Company (page images at HathiTrust)
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