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Edna Ferber
American novelist, short story writer and playwright
1885 – 1968aged 82
Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize for So Big in 1924 and went on to write Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant, novels whose adaptations — the Show Boat musical, an Oscar-winning Best Picture, and a landmark James Dean film — outran the books themselves in cultural reach. Her 1922 short story "Old Man Minick" was adapted for stage and screen three separate times.