BiosStars
Home Calendar Groups About Contact

Edna Ferber

Novelist born on

Detailed Information

Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Novelist
Died
Apr 16, 1968
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
Kalamazoo MI
About
The Pulitzer prize-winning author of So Big (1924), she is best known for her 1926 work, Show Boat, which was adapted into a popular Broadway musical in 1927. Several of her other works, including Cimarron (1929) and Giant (1952) were adapted into award-winning motion pictures.
Family
She was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to a family of Hungarian-Jewish descent. She never married or had children.

More Novelist

More Leo