CHEERFUL—­BY REQUEST
The editor paid for the lunch (as editors do).
He lighted his seventh cigarette and leaned back.
The conversation, which had zigzagged from the war
to Zuloag...
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American author Edna Ferber (1887-1968) wrote popular fiction and collaborated on several successful Broadway plays.Born in Kalamazoo, Mich., Edna Ferber at an early age moved with her family to Apple...
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Edna Ferber , popular and prolific novelist, short-story writer, autobiographer, and dramatic collaborator with George S. Kaufman, is remembered chiefly as a chronicler and critic of American cultural...
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Edna Ferber was one of the most popular Jewish-American women writers in history. She was a best-selling author as well as a critically successful one and the first Jewish-American woman to win the Pu...
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Edna Ferber , best known today for her novels, was a short-story writer well before she was an acclaimed novelist. It was not until the appearance of So Big in 1924, after the publication of four nove...
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Generally known as a novelist who deftly illustrated American life and culture in her popular fiction, Edna Ferber was always drawn to the stage. As a child she wanted to act, but she later realized t...
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Cheerful—By Request
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber