Edna Ferber

Show Boat 11/22/2009

Show Boat 11/20/2009

Birthday: August 15, 1987

Edna Ferber was probably the most respected and widely read woman author of the 20th century, and ranks among the most influential female novelists in history. Her books, which often told large, sweeping stories across a great historical arc from the standpoint of ordinary men and women, sold in the millions, while the plays adapted from them enjoyed long runs and the films adapted from them ...more