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Edna Ferber (1885–1968)

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Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Aug. 15, 1885. She spent her early career as a reporter. In 1910, Everybody's Magazine published her short story, The Homely Heroine, set in Appleton, Wisconsin. Ferber's novel, Dawn O'Hara, the story of a newspaperwoman in Milwaukee, followed in 1911. visa mer She gained national attention for her series of Emma McChesney stories, tales of a traveling underskirt saleswoman that were published in national magazines. A play based on the stories, Our Mrs. McChesney, was produced in 1915, starring Ethel Barrymore. With collaborator George S. Kaufman, Ferber wrote acclaimed plays Dinner at Eight and The Royal Family. Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for So Big, the story of a woman raising a child on a truck farm outside of Chicago. Her best known books include Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace. Show Boat was made into a classic movie and Broadway musical; the film version of Cimarron, won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1931. Ferber wrote two autobiographies, A Peculiar Treasure published in 1939 and A Kind of Magic in 1963. She died of cancer on April 16, 1968. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Edna Ferber

So Big (1924) — Författare — 991 exemplar
Giant (1952) 691 exemplar
Teaterbåten (1926) 453 exemplar
Cimarron (1929) — Författare — 315 exemplar
Högt spel i Saratoga (1941) 236 exemplar
Ice Palace (1958) 194 exemplar
Great Son (1944) 165 exemplar
Giant [1956 film] (1956) — Original book — 135 exemplar
Fanny Herself (1917) 99 exemplar
American Beauty (1931) — Författare — 92 exemplar
A Peculiar Treasure (1939) 90 exemplar
Stage Door (1936) 84 exemplar
Come and Get It (1935) 57 exemplar
The Royal Family (1927) 50 exemplar
The Girls (1921) 48 exemplar
Buttered Side Down (1912) 47 exemplar
Emma McChesney and Co. (1915) 43 exemplar
A Kind of Magic (1963) 26 exemplar
Gigolo (1977) 25 exemplar
Show Boat [vocal score] (1927) — Novel — 23 exemplar
Half Portions (1920) 21 exemplar
Cheerful—By Request (1922) 20 exemplar
Three Comedies (2000) 20 exemplar
Mother Knows Best (1927) 13 exemplar
Nobody's in Town (1939) 9 exemplar
They Brought Their Women (1970) 8 exemplar
No Room at the Inn (1941) 7 exemplar
Trees Die at the Top (1951) 5 exemplar
Old Man Minick (1924) 4 exemplar
Bravo! Play in Three Acts (1949) 4 exemplar
The Gay Old Dog (2009) 2 exemplar
Io ti amo 1 exemplar
Trigo e Esmeralda 1 exemplar
The Homely Heroine (2004) 1 exemplar
The Land Is Bright 1 exemplar
Jak veliký 1 exemplar
Teaterbaaden 1 exemplar
JTILNEN 1 exemplar
The Girls and Other Stories (2013) 1 exemplar
Saratoga 1 exemplar
Loď komediantov 1 exemplar

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American Christmas Stories (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 59 exemplar
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Cimarron [1931 film] (1931) — Original novel — 26 exemplar
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Show Boat: A Musical Play in Two Acts (Libretto) (1934) — Orignal book — 16 exemplar
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O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 (1920) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Come and Get It [1936 film] (1936) — Original novel — 8 exemplar
George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Saratoga Trunk [1945 film] (2011) — Original novel — 6 exemplar
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
So Big [1953 film] — Original novel — 4 exemplar
Nelson Doubleday, 1889-1949 (1949) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Aces: A Collection of Short Stories (1924) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
So Big! [1932 film] (1932) — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Giant [Abridged - Reader's Digest] (1976) — Original book — 1 exemplar

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Verk
69
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42
Medlemmar
4,462
Popularitet
#5,610
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
116
ISBN
526
Språk
11
Favoritmärkt
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