Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was a novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose work served as the inspiration for numerous Broadway plays and Hollywood films, including Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant, Saratoga Trunk, and Ice Palace. She co-wrote the plays The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, and Stage Door with George S. Kaufman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big.
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Set against the vast and untamed landscape of the American frontier, Cimarron is a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of historical fiction that captures the spirit of the Oklahoma Land Rush and the struggle to build a new life in a changing nation. Edna Ferberâ... SEE MORE