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Edna Ferber biography

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  • NAME: Edna Ferber
  • OCCUPATION: Writer
  • BIRTH DATE: August 15, 1885
  • DEATH DATE: April 16, 1968
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Kalamazoo, Michigan
  • PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York

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Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edna Ferber wrote books and plays that became movies like Show Boat, Giant, and Stage Door.

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Novelist and playwright Edna Ferber began her writing career as a reporter in her native Michigan. She soon started to write fiction, and in 1924, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big. Ferber was very popular––her book Show Boat (1926) became a musical, and Giant (1952) was made into a movie (James Dean's final film). Her plays include Dinner at Eight and Stage Door.

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