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Edna Ferber (1885)close

Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She was considered to be the greatest American female writer of her day. Her best known work is Showboat, a novel that was made into a Broadway musical and adapted into three motion pictures. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for her book So Big.

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