In GIANT LOVE, author/playwright Julie Gilbert, Ferber's great-niece, explores Ferber's writing of the controversial international bestseller, "Giant." The novel set off a storm of protest over its ...
Ted looks at the works of 20th Century novelist Edna Ferber. Ted looks at the works of 20th Century novelist Edna Ferber, author of "Giant", "Show Boat", "Cimarron" and "So Big". Inside the Cover is ...
Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death — ...
There have been many stories about Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean bonding during the production of George Stevens’ epic “Giant” in Marfa, Texas, in 1955. Though not exactly a “Harold & Maude” ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Conducting refreshingly engaging interviews with top Hollywood stars. It is rather well known that the 1956 film Giant remains one ...
Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas and the Making of a Classic American Film; By Julie Gilbert; Pantheon; 386 pp., $35.00 Ferber, however, won literary acclaim when few women ...
GREAT SON—Edna Ferber—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). If, as Edna Ferber once remarked, “writing a novel is like plodding along a dirt road ankle deep in mud,” she is easily one of the world’s most ...
Author Julie Gilbert will discuss her latest book about novelist Edna Ferber in a pair of upcoming events. Because Gilbert is Edna Ferber's great niece, she had access to a trove of private documents ...
Ifkovic’s promising debut, the first in a series, features real-life writer Edna Ferber as an amateur sleuth in 1955 Hollywood. The Pulitzer Prize winner is visiting there because her bestselling ...
When she was doing research for the book "Cimarron" about early Oklahoma, author Edna Ferber spent several days in Oklahoma. Two pioneer Sooners became recognizable characters in the book — although ...
Edna Ferber did not want James Dean to play Jett Rink, the brutish ranch hand turned dissolute millionaire oil magnate from her 1952 novel “Giant.” ‘ She had imagined someone brawnier for the movie ...
A KIND OF MAGIC by Edna Ferber. 335 pages. Doubleday. $5.75. Five feet tall and 76 years old, Edna Ferber is a human word factory. Over the past 52 years she has co-authored seven plays and written 25 ...
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