Edna Ferber (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Edna Ferber hoped she would be remembered as a playwright, but even during her lifetime, she was considered primarily a novelist and writer of short stories; nevertheless, the ease with which several of her major novels, among them Show Boat (1926), Saratoga Trunk (1941), and Giant (1952), have been adapted to musical theater and film proves that memorable characterization is the greatest strength her works possess. Strong characterization appears even in her first novel, Dawn O’Hara: The Girl Who Laughed (1911), and Ferber...
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