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Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Jewish parents, Ferber was raised in Illinois, Iowa, and Wiscon...mehr sehenEdna Ferber (1885-1968) was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Jewish parents, Ferber was raised in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Economic hardship and antisemitism made their family a tight knit one as they moved constantly throughout Edna’s youth. At 17, she gave up her dream of studying to be an actor to support her family, finding work at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal as a reporter. In 1911, while recovering from anemia, Ferber published her debut novel, Dawn O’Hara: The Girl Who Laughed, earning a reputation as a rising star in American literature. In 1925, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big, which follows a young woman from a suburb of Chicago who takes a job as a teacher in a rural town. She followed up her critically acclaimed bestseller with the novel Show Boat (1926), which was adapted into a popular musical by Oscar Hammerstein and P. G. Wodehouse the year after its release. Several of her books became successful film and theater productions—So Big served as source material for a 1932 movie starring Barbara Stanwick, George Brent, and Bette Davis, which was remade in 1953 with Jane Wyman in the lead role. Ferber spent most of her life in New York City, where she became a member of the influential Algonquin Round Table group. In the leadup to the Second World War, Ferber supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was a fierce critic of Hitler and antisemitism around the world.weniger sehen
Bücher von Edna Ferber
So Big So Big: A Novel Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5So Big Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Giant: A Novel Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Show Boat Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5So Big Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Edna Ferber: The Complete Works Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5Best Humorous Writings Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenSo Big Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5So Big Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5So Big Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5
Hörbücher von Edna Ferber
Giant: A Novel Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5So Big: A Novel Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Roast Beef, Medium Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Saratoga Trunk: A Novel Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5So Big Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5Personality Plus Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The Dancing Girls Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5Edna Ferber: Long Distance: Romance is often closer than we think Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenPersonality Plus Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Si Grand Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenEdna Ferber: That's Marriage Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 Bewertungen