Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death — ...

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas and the Making of a Classic American Film; By Julie Gilbert; Pantheon; 386 pp., $35.00 Ferber, however, won literary acclaim when few women ...

Ted looks at the works of 20th Century novelist Edna Ferber. Ted looks at the works of 20th Century novelist Edna Ferber, author of "Giant", "Show Boat", "Cimarron" and "So Big". Inside the Cover is ...

A novelist who penned many award winning books with western themes. One of those novels was turned into the 1952 big screen classic, Giant. Published in 1952, Giant tells the story of a young Virginia ...

Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer-winning So Big was the bestselling novel of 1924. This class-conscious novel with a feminist heroine looks better the older it gets. Four years after the publication of So Big, ...

Set in 1923, Ifkovic’s middling eighth Edna Ferber mystery (after 2016’s Cold Morning) takes real-life author Ferber, who’s working on her novel So Big, and her mother, Julia, to Chicago, to visit an ...

Set in New York during the winter of 1933, Ifkovic’s outstanding ninth mystery featuring writer Edna Ferber (after 2017’s Old News) opens at British playwright Noel Coward’s 33rd birthday party at his ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Conducting refreshingly engaging interviews with top Hollywood stars. It is rather well known that the 1956 film Giant remains one ...

In her day, Edna Ferber was one of America’s most famous and successful writers, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. “Show Boat,” the much revived musical, is based on her novel. “Stage Door,” the ...

Edna Ferber did not want James Dean to play Jett Rink, the brutish ranch hand turned dissolute millionaire oil magnate from her 1952 novel “Giant.” ‘ She had imagined someone brawnier for the movie ...

Novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century, Edna Ferber is hailed on a new U.S. 83-cent stamp to be released this month. Ferber is a Pulitzer ...