Edna Ferber

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1911
  • Latest Book:
    February 2013
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Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed

    In Ferber's first novel, published in 1911, Dawn O'Hara is a New York newspaperwoman who returns home to Michigan when her mentally ill husband is institutionalized.  With the help of a handsome doctor, Dawn rebuilds her career as a journalist, ...

  • Buttered Side Down: Stories

    "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."**** Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it...

  • Roast Beef, Medium

    The stories featured Emma McChesney: smart, savvy, stylish, divorced mother, and Midwest traveling sales representative for T. A. Buck's Featherloom skirts and petticoats. With one hand on her sample case and the other fending off advances from s...

  • Personality Plus

    Ferber's first big success as a writer came with the character Emma McChesney, a plucky, self-made businesswoman.  This volume, published in 1914, is the second in a trilogy that begins with Roast Beef, Medium (1913) and finishes with Emma McChe...

  • Emma McChesney and Company

    Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to travelin...

  • Fanny Herself

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was presen...

  • Cheerful by Request

    Duty, loneliness, and longing are recurring themes in this 1918 collection of a dozen short stories by the author of Show Boat. Includes “The Gay Old Dog.” “The Tough Guy,” “The Eldest,” “That's Marriage,” “The Woman Who Tried to Be...

  • Half Portions

    Edna Ferber was a woman with a great wit and striking talent; she didn't just have huge stories to tell, she had the craft to tell them with wit and charm. Her novels and stories generally featured strong female protagonists, and generally she spe...

  • The Girls

    The Girls is Edna Ferber’s first novel to depict multiple generations, a theme that would reemerge in much of her work. In the book, she tells the story of the Thrift women -- a great aunt, a niece, and a grand niece -- who live on Chicago’s Sout...



  • Gigolo

    Eight stories of tangy satire and sweet sentimentality. Filled with human drama, unfaltering reason, and extraordinary description....

  • So Big

    Library of America presents a modern classic, the Pulitzer Prize"winning novel about one women's irrepressible spirit in the face of life's hardships.In her breakthrough novel So Big, Edna Ferber follows the life of the unforgettable Selina Peake D...

  • The Homely Heroine: A Novella

    "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it nev...

  • Show Boat

    Edna Ferber’s classic paean of love to the Mississippi River and the showboats that ran up and down it is once again available in hardcover as a facsimile of the first edition. First published in 1926, this timeless tale of the Cotton Blossom, Cap...

  • Cimarron

    The basis for the Academy Award-winning major motion picture starring Best Actor nominee Richard Dix and Best Actress nominee Irene Dunne.This vivid and sweeping tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush, from Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber, traces the stunn...

  • American Beauty

    Originally published in 1931, this bestselling American family saga from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber shares the story of the Oakes family, as their relationships and property encounter numerous struggles over the course of hundreds of y...

  • A Peculiar Treasure: Non-Fiction

    Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's stunning first autobiography, in which she recounts her small-town Midwestern childhood and rise to literary fame, all amidst the backdrop of America around the turn of the 20th century.A modest girl growing up one...

  • Saratoga Trunk

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Against the romantic backdrop of old New Orleans and Saratoga of the 1880s, a brilliant novelist unfolds the tempestuous love story of Clio Dulaine and Clint Maroon... CLIO -- the cool, strong-willed beauty who flaunted her scandalous past before ...

  • Great Son

    Originally published in 1945, the triumphant novel of a great American family dynasty in the Pacific Northwest, by Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber.Great Son tells the story of four generations of the Melendys, a family grown rich and ill at ease, w...

  • One Basket

    A rich, varied, and brilliant collection of some of the most-loved stories from one of America's favorite writers, chosen by the author herself, Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber.At eighteen, Edna Ferber was the only female reporter on a big, tough, ...



  • Giant

    The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first ...

  • Ice Palace

    Originally published in 1958, Ice Palace is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's classic and mighty novel about the taming of a great northern wilderness -- Alaska.Czar Kennedy came to Alaska for money and power, Thor Storm for a dream. This is the st...

  • The Woman Who Tried To Be Good And Other Stories

    Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad woman ' so bad that she could trail her wonderful apparel up and down Main Street, from the Elm Tree Bakery to the railroad tracks, without once having a man doff his hat to her or a woma...

  • A Bush League Hero

    This is not a baseball story. The grandstand does not rise as one man and shout itself hoarse with joy. There isn't a three-bagger in the entire three thousand words, and nobody is carried home on the shoulders of the crowd. For that sort of thing yo...

  • The Kitchen Side of the Door

    "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it nev...

  • The Leading Lady

    "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it nev...

  • The Man Who Came Back

    Ted worked that day with his teeth set so that his jaws ached next morning. Minnie Wenzel spoke to him only when necessary and then in terms of dollars and cents. When dinner time came she divested herself of the black sateen sleevelets, wriggled fro...

  • Maymeys from Cuba

    "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it nev...

  • One of the Old Girls

    "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it nev...

  • Sun Dried

    "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it nev...



  • That Home Town Feeling

    "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it nev...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edna Ferber has published 30 books.

Edna Ferber does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Bush League Hero, was published in February 2013.

The first book by Edna Ferber, Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed, was published in January 1911.

No. Edna Ferber does not write books in series.
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