Edna Ferber ( August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968 ) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.

Ferber was born August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Jacob Charles and Julia ( Neumann ) Ferber.

When composer Jerome Kern proposed turning the very serious Show Boat into a musical, Ferber was shocked, thinking it would be transformed into a typical light entertainment of the 1920s.

It was not until Kern explained that he and Oscar Hammerstein II wanted to create a different type of musical that Ferber granted him the rights.

Ferber was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of wits who met for lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.

Ferber and another member of the Round Table, Alexander Woollcott, were long-time enemies, their antipathy lasting until Woollcott's death in 1943, although Howard Teichmann states in his biography of Woollcott that their feud was due to a misunderstanding.

Even the musical Show Boat, which is greatly different from the Edna Ferber novel from which it was adapted uses some of Ferber's original dialogue, notably during the miscegenation scene.

The play was written in collaboration with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman, who regularly wrote with others, notably Marc Connelly and Edna Ferber.

The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters ' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called " Screen Door ".

The screenplay was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Gertrude Purcell from the play The Royal Family by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.

was not the direct subject of the Ferber case, but the book was prominently featured by both sides in the litigation, and it played a significant role in the oral argument before the U. S. Supreme Court.

In 1933, he co-wrote Dinner at Eight, which was based on the George S. Kaufman / Edna Ferber play, and became one of the most popular comedies at that time and remains a " classic " comedy.

During the summer of 1936, she was loaned to Samuel Goldwyn to appear in Come and Get It, based on the novel by Edna Ferber.

His long-in-development show, The Royal Family of Broadway, with a book by Richard Greenberg, was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, which tells the story of a girl from a family of great Broadway actors who contemplates leaving show business and getting married.

The album was produced by Nick Launay at Studio Ferber in Paris in March – April 2004 and Nick Cave used The Bad Seeds line up of Mick Harvey, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis, and James Johnston.

Levavasseur experimented with the construction of aircraft and in 1906 the Antoinette company was contracted to build an aircraft for Captain Ferdinand Ferber.

Author Edna Ferber was also a good friend.

Ferberite was discovered in 1863 in Sierra Almagrera, Spain, and named after Moritz Rudolph Ferber ( 1805-1875 ).

In her 1958 novel about Alaska, Ice Palace, author Edna Ferber based the character of Bridie Ballantyne, official greeter of the fictional town of Baranof, on McGown ;, the part of Bridie Ballantyne was played by Carolyn Jones in the 1960 film adaptation of the novel.

terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of individual ’ s sex .” Blau and Ferber ( 1992 at p129 ) report that the female-to-male ratio of earnings of full-time employees was moderately stable at 60 % for the first seventy years of the twentieth century.

The James Adams Floating Theatre is the only showboat that was visited by Edna Ferber while writing her novel Showboat.

The script was written by Howard Estabrook based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron.

* Works by Edna Ferber at Internet Archive

Cimarron is the title of a novel by Edna Ferber, published in 1929 and based on development in Oklahoma after the Land Rush.

* 1925: So Big by Edna Ferber

In 1968, he and four others ( including William Sloane Coffin, Marcus Raskin, Mitchell Goodman, and Michael Ferber ) were singled out for prosecution by then Attorney General Ramsey Clark on charges of conspiracy to counsel, aid, and abet resistance to the draft.

* In " Showboat " by Edna Ferber, the gambler Gaylord Ravenal specializes in the game of Faro.

* B ' nai Israel synagogue-Designed by architect Percival Goodman, the synagogue features works by Herbert Ferber, Adolph Gottlieb and Robert Motherwell.

William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchel Goodman and Marcus Raskin, an account of the five men's 1970 trial on charges of conspiracy to violate the draft laws, followed by a harsh critique of the American prison system entitled Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business ( 1973 ), an allusion to the phrase " cruel and unusual punishment ".

Osage is the main town of the movie " Cimarron " ( 1931 ) based upon the novel by Edna Ferber, a story about a newspaper editor who settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century: http :// www. imdb. com / title / tt0021746 /.

Cimarron, based on the popular novel by Edna Ferber, took the Best Picture award.

Additionally, in 1982's New York v. Ferber, the Court declared child pornography is unprotected by the First Amendment, upholding the state of New York's ban on that material.

* Giant ( novel ), a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber

* The Girls, a 1921 novel by Edna Ferber

* Museum for Applied Arts (" Ferber House "), displays collections of Bauhaus ceramics by the artists Otto Lindig und Theodor Bogler ; architectural works of Thilo Schoder ; and photographs by Aenne Biermann.

Supertwistors are a supersymmetric extension of twistors introduced by Alan Ferber in 1978.

* The Trial of Dr. Spock, William Sloane Coffin, Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin, by Jessica Mitford, New York, Knopf, 1969 ISBN 0-394-44952-5

" Ferber did take a maternal interest in the career of her niece Janet Fox, an actress who performed in the original Broadway casts of Ferber's plays Dinner at Eight and Stage Door.

* Lili Taylor played Edna Ferber

During its long run, " The Conning Tower " featured contributions from such writers as Robert Benchley, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John O ' Hara, Dorothy Parker and Deems Taylor.

* Cimarron ( 1931 ): based on the 1929 novel by Edna Ferber ; directed by Wesley Ruggles ; screenplay cast includes Richard Dix, Irene Dunne and Estelle Taylor