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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Julie Gilbert, Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated grand nice and biographer (“Ferber: The Biography of Edna Ferber and Her ...

James Dean gets in some roping practice on the studio lot of the 1956 film, Giant. (Screen Archives/Getty Images) Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas and the Making of a Classic ...

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 ...

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 ...

In GIANT LOVE, author/playwright Julie Gilbert, Ferber's great-niece, explores Ferber's writing of the controversial international bestseller, "Giant." The novel set off a storm of protest over its ...

Perhaps the most enduring scene in “Giant,” the 1956 movie based on Edna Ferber’s novel of the same name, is the moment when Jett Rink, played by James Dean, strikes oil on his bleak West Texas patch ...

Author Julie Gilbert will discuss her latest book about novelist Edna Ferber in a pair of upcoming events. Because Gilbert is Edna Ferber's great niece, she had access to a trove of private documents ...

The creative world of late 1927 Manhattan provides the backdrop for Ifkovic’s unconvincing fourth mystery to feature author Edna Ferber (after 2012’s Make Believe). Amid rehearsals for the musical ...

Ifkovic’s promising debut, the first in a series, features real-life writer Edna Ferber as an amateur sleuth in 1955 Hollywood. The Pulitzer Prize winner is visiting there because her bestselling ...

Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who grew up in Appleton, WI, sharpened her storytelling skills as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal. From her Midwest roots to the Hollywood ...

GREAT SON—Edna Ferber—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). If, as Edna Ferber once remarked, “writing a novel is like plodding along a dirt road ankle deep in mud,” she is easily one of the world’s most ...