New York, NY, United States
Edna Ferber 1887-1968 The widely-read novelist, short story writer, and playwright, best known for the novel Giant (1952), lived here from 1923 to 1929. Ferber’s fiction is distinguished by larger-than-life stories, strong female characters, and distinctive renderings of American settings. Two of he
r novels were published while she lived here: the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), and Show Boat (1926).
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