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Ferber, Edna
Born: 1887 AD
Died: 1968 AD, at 81 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Novelists, Playwrights
Died: 1968 AD, at 81 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Novelists, Playwrights
US author
wrote novels "So Big" 1924 (Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1925), "Cimarron" 1929, "Show Boat" 1926, co-wrote play "Dinner at Eight" 1932 with George Kaufman
member of the Algonquin Wits
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- "Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant."
- "Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way."
- "Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never."
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So Big (Perennial Classics) by Edna Ferber (Paperback - Sep 1, 2000) Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize,So Bigis widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Giant (Perennial Classics) by Edna Ferber and Stuart M. Rosen (Paperback - Sep 1, 2000) This sweeping tale captures the essence of Texas on a staggering scale as it chronicles the life and times of cattleman Jordan "Bick" Benedict, his naive young society wife, Leslie, and three...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Show Boat: A Facsimile of the 1926 Edition by Edna Ferber (Hardcover - May 1, 2007) Edna Ferber’s classic paean of love to the Mississippi River and the showboats that ran up and down it is once again available in hardcover as a facsimile of the first edition. First published... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Stage Door. by George Kaufman and Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman (Paperback - Jan 17, 1998) Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle: Paperback Book by Julie Gilbert and Edna Ferber (Paperback - Feb 1, 2000) This enduring biography of the popular writer begins with Ferber's last years in New York City, exploring the setting in which she did all of her great writing. Diaries, copious correspondence, and... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Saratoga Trunk (Perennial Classics) by Edna Ferber and Stuart M. Rosen (Paperback - Sep 1, 2000) The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman,Saratoga Trunkunfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Saratoga Trunk (DVD) Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper paired off again after For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) with this overwrought melodrama based on the romance novel by Edna Ferber. Bergman plays Clio Dulaine, a beautiful...  |
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