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`¬Ferber, Edna1887╨1968writerBorn on August 15, 1887, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Edna Ferber grew up there and in Appleton, Wisconsin.  After graduating from high school in 1905 she worked for a time as a reporter for a local newspaper, moving later to jobs with the Milwaukee Journal and then the Chicago Tribune.  After the publication of her first novel, Dawn O╒Hara, in 1911, she devoted herself to writing.  She soon became a prolific producer of magazine stories that were highly popular both at their first publication and in such collections as Buttered Side Down, 1912, Roast Beef Medium, 1913, Emma McChesney & Co., 1915, Fanny Herself, 1917, Cheerful╤by Request, 1918, Half Portions, 1919, The Girls, 1921, Gigolo, 1922, Mother Knows Best, 1927, and One Basket, 1947.  Her novel So Big, 1924, placed her in the ranks of the best-selling authors of the day and also was sufficiently esteemed by critics to win a Pulitzer Prize.  Ferber╒s acute observations of American social life combined with a strong flair for characterization in a series of novels set in picturesque places and times╤Show Boat, 1926, which Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II adapted for the great musical of the same name in 1929, Cimarron, 1930, Saratoga Trunk, 1941, Giant, 1952, and Ice Palace, 1958, all made into successful motion pictures.  Ferber also collaborated with George S. Kaufman on a number of plays, including Minick, 1925, The Royal Family, 1927, Dinner at Eight, 1932, Stage Door, 1936, The Land Is Bright, 1941, and Bravo!, 1949.  Several of the plays became movies as well.  Although her stories and novels were occasionally dismissed by some critics as merely popular romances, there was in them a constant undercurrent of serious exploration and celebration of the American character and the American land.  She published two autobiographical volumes A Peculiar Treasure, 1939, and A Kind of Magic, 1963.  Ferber died in New York City on April 16, 1968.╛styl
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