Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1885. She was a member of the Algonquin Round Table and frequently co-wrote plays with George S. Kaufman.
Her books include So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926), Cimarron (1930), Giant (1952) and Ice Palace (1958). So Big won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize, and Show Boat became the 1927 Broadway musical created with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. She died in New York City in 1968.
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