# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edna-ferber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:46:09.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edna-ferber"
name: "Edna Ferber"
slug: "edna-ferber"
description: "Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story \"Old Man Minick\", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer and playwright (1885–1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1885-08-15"
deathDate: "1968-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.23
  momentum:             9.789227166276344
  historical:           23.616072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272209/"
    handle:    "nm0272209"
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    title: "Էդնա Ֆրբեր"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump