With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Edna Ferber
Fiction
1885 – 1968
- Biography/Description of Work
American novelist, short story writer and playwright, Ferber won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1924 novel “So Big.” Other important works included “Show Boat” written in 1926 and made into a musical in 1927, “Cimarron” from 1929 for which the film adaptation earned a 1931 Academy Award, and 1952’s “Giant” adapted to the screen in 1956. The latter, as well as “Great Son” (1945) and “Ice Palace” (1958), were written while she lived in Easton in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Sources view
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Ferber, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272209/, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ferber.html, http://www.biography.com/people/edna-ferber-9293049, http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/wireader/WER0050.html, http://www.nchistoricsites.org/bath/edna-ferber.htm
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