Edna Ferber

Author 19 / Writer 4 · 1864 – 1958 · 🎬 4 📖 19

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story "Old Man Minick", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go.

All · 23 🎬 Movies · 4 📖 Books · 19

Fiction Fiction, general Fiction, short stories (single author) Families History

Highlights

Show boat, So Big, Cimarron

Show boat, So Big, Cimarron

1958

Giant

Giant

1956

Giant

Giant

1952

Frequent Collaborators

Robert Nichols

1 shared

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

1 shared

Fred Guiol

1 shared

Mercedes McCambridge

Mercedes McCambridge

1 shared

Charles Starrett

1 shared

Charles Meredith

1 shared

All decades 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

🎬 Movies

Giant

Giant

writer

1956

The Royal Family of Broadway

The Royal Family of Broadway

writer

1930

Mother Knows Best

Mother Knows Best

writer

1928

So Big

writer

1924

📖 Books

Show boat, So Big, Cimarron

Show boat, So Big, Cimarron

author

1958

Giant

Giant

author

1952

One basket

One basket

author

1947

Great son

Great son

author

1945

Saratoga Trunk

Saratoga Trunk

author

1941

They brought their women, a book of short stories

They brought their women, a book of short stories

author

1933

American Beauty

American Beauty

author

1931

Show boat

Show boat

author

1926

The girls

The girls

author

1921

So Big

So Big

author

1920

Ice Palace

Ice Palace

author

1920

Cheerful

Cheerful

author

1918

Fanny Herself

Fanny Herself

author

1917

Emma McChesney & Co

Emma McChesney & Co

author

1915

Roast Beef, Medium

Roast Beef, Medium

author

1913

Buttered Side Down

Buttered Side Down

author

1912

Personality Plus

Personality Plus

author

1910

Half Portions

Half Portions

author

1900

Cimarron

Cimarron

author

1864

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