Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber was a widely popular American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. She was particularly famous for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel called So Big. Other prominent novels of her career include Show Board, Cimarron, Giant, Ice Palace, etc. Each of them was adapted into popular movies during the 30s, 50s, and 60s. Author Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on August 15, 1885. Her parents, Jacob Charles Ferber and Julia Ferber were of Hungarian Jewish and German Jewish descent respectively.