Edna Ferber
American novelist, short story writer and playwright (1885-1968) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 82
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.
Edna Ferber is read about 206 times a day, in 40 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
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Martin Scorsese Directed American Masters
William Wyler Directed Come and Get It (1936)
Howard Hawks Directed Come and Get It (1936)
Samuel Goldwyn Produced Come and Get It (1936)
Mercedes McCambridge Also in Giant and Cimarron
George Stevens Directed Giant (1956)
William A. Wellman Directed So Big! (1932)
Earl Holliman Edna wrote Giant (1956)
James Whale Directed Show Boat (1936)
Martha Hyer Also in So Big and Ice Palace
Wesley Ruggles Directed Cimarron (1931)
Charles Walters Directed Cimarron (1960)
Vincent Sherman Directed Ice Palace (1960)
Archie Mayo Directed The Expert (1932)
William Churchill deMille Produced Gigolo (1926)
Carl Laemmle Jr. Produced Show Boat (1936)
Harry A. Pollard Directed Show Boat (1929)
Hobart Henley Directed A Gay Old Dog (1919)
William K. Howard Directed Gigolo (1926)
Cyril Gardner Directed The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
Stanley Fields Edna wrote Show Boat (1936)
Earle Foxe Also in So Big! and The Expert
Morgan Neville Directed American Masters- Henry Blanke Produced So Big (1953)
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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.
