Ferber, Edna
Ferber, Edna( 1887–1968),Michigan-born novelist and playwright, resided in New York City. After her first novel, Dawn O'Hara (1911), she wrote the short stories about the business woman Emma McChesney, collected in Roast Beef, Medium (1913), Personality Plus (1914), and Emma McChesney and Co. (1915). Besides other collections of stories, including Mother Knows Best (1927), she was the author of successful novels: Fanny Herself (1917); The Girls (1921), a study of three generations of women; So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize), about Selina, a truck gardener, and her sacrifices for her son Dirk; Show Boat (1926), the romantic story of Magnolia Hawks, leading lady of her father's showboat troupe, who marries Gaylord Ravenal, a gambler, and after he deserts her becomes a successful singer; Cimarron (1930), about the 1889 land rush in Oklahoma and the region's later development;...
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