Who is Edna Ferber?

(Show more) Edna Ferber, (born August 15, 1885, Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.—died April 16, 1968, New York, New York), American novelist and short-story writer who wrote with compassion and curiosity about Midwestern American life.

Where did fer Ferber grow up?

Ferber grew up mostly in her native Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in Appleton, Wisconsin (in between her family moved to several Midwestern towns). Her father, born in Hungary, was a merchant.

Why is Harriet Ferber important to literature?

Critics hailed Ferber as the greatest woman novelist of the period. Her novels Cimarron (1930), Saratoga Trunk (1941), Giant (1952), and Ice Palace (1958) were all made into motion pictures.

What is Alice Ferber’s most famous book?

Her autobiographies, A Peculiar Treasure (1939), which focuses in part on Ferber’s pride in her Jewish heritage, and A Kind of Magic (1963), evince her genuine and encompassing love for America.