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Edna Ferber Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Aug 15, 1885
  • Died: Apr 16, 1968

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.