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<p><P><i>...I have, I suppose, lived the life of a stage struck Jewish nun: working very hard, occasionally running around doing good deeds: footloose but the hands tied to the typewriter for hours daily...</i><br><br><P>Thus Edna Ferber described her artistic dedication and love of the theater in a letter to her friend Noel Coward. Everyone knew the Edna Ferber of the books and plays, but her personal life was an enigma. Those who knew her more intimately loved her for her acute wit, but she was also cantankerous, had a temper any grown man would fear, was given to spurts of eccentric generosity, and, above all, was never predictable.<P>This enduring biography of the popular writer begins with Ferber's last years in New York City, exploring the setting in which she did all of her great writing: the novels <i>So Big</i> (Pulitzer Prize winner), <i>Cimarron</i>, <i>Giant</i>, and <i>Show Boat</i>, and equally celebrated plays: <i>Dinner at Eight</i>, <i>Stage Door</i>, and <i>The Royal Family</i>, which she wrote with George S. Kaufman. It was also the place where her wit and talent established her as a leading light among a group of such gifted people as George S. Kaufman, Moss Har

Author

Julie Gilbert, Edna Ferber

Publisher

Applause Theatre Book Publishers

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781557833327

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction