Edna Ferber’s literary works are less known today than those of the other classic women authors of her era, but she was prolific and widely read in her time. She was strong and savvy, and despite her relative obscurity today, wildly successful. 

Ferber’s reputation was cemented with So Big (1924), a novel that was not only a best seller, but which won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize. Popular writers rarely enjoy critical acclaim, but in her case, the critics were generally kind, even as her subsequent work became less literary and more mainstream. Read More→