Author
Edna Ferber
1885–1968 4 volumes Literary Classics
The life
Edna Ferber was an American novelist and playwright, a reporter at seventeen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for So Big. Show Boat, Cimarron and Giant all became major films or musicals. A charter member of the Algonquin Round Table, she never married and wrote that her work was her husband; her Jewish immigrant childhood in the Midwest fed everything she wrote about outsiders.
Where to start
Buttered Side Down
136 pages — the shortest way into Ferber, not the greatest.
“And so,” the story writers used to say, “they lived happily ever after.”
Paintings from these volumes
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