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Edna Ferber

Born: 08/15/1887   Kalamazoo , MI
Died: 04/16/1968
Parents: Jacob Charles and Julia Ferber

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
A Kind of Magic
- Autobiography: Sequel to "A Peculiar Treasure" 		Biography Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1963
Ice Palace Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1958
Giant Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1952
One Basket: Thirty-One Short Stories Fiction , Short Stories Adult New York: Simon and Schuster 1947
Great Son Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1945
SaratogaTrunk Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1941
A Peculiar Treasure
- Autobiography 		Biography Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1939
Nobody's in Town Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1938
Come and Get It Fiction Adult Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1935
They Brought Their Women: A Book of Short Stories Short Stories Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1933
Dinner at Eight: a play
- Written with George Kaufman 		Fiction , Drama Adult New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1932
American Beauty Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1931
Cimarron Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1930
Mother Knows Best: A Fiction Book Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1927
Show Boat Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1926
Old Man Minick, a Short Story Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & CO 1924
So Big Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO 1924
Gigolo Short Stories Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & CO 1922
The Girls Fiction Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & CO 1921
Half Portions Fiction , Short Stories Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & CO 1920
$1200 a Year
- With Newman Levy 		Drama Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & CO 1920
Cheerful, By Request Fiction , Short Stories Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & CO 1918
Fanny Herself Fiction Adult New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1917
Emma McChesney and Co. Fiction Adult New York: Frederick A Stokes Company Publishers 1915
Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock Fiction Adult New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1914
Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney Fiction Adult New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1913
Buttered Side Down Fiction Adult New York: Frederick A Stokes Company Publishers 1912
The Royal Family: a Comedy in Three Acts
- Collaborated with George S. Kaufman in several plays 		Drama Adult Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & CO

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1956

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Reporter
- Others in Milwaukee, Chicago 		Appleton Daily Crescent 1902 -1904
- Lived in New York after 1912
War correspondentWorld War II U. S. Air Force

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Other Comments:

Many novels became musicals, movies

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