Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas and the Making of a Classic American Film; By Julie Gilbert; Pantheon; 386 pp., $35.00 Ferber, however, won literary acclaim when few women ...

Ted looks at the works of 20th Century novelist Edna Ferber. Ted looks at the works of 20th Century novelist Edna Ferber, author of "Giant", "Show Boat", "Cimarron" and "So Big". Inside the Cover is ...

The creative world of late 1927 Manhattan provides the backdrop for Ifkovic’s unconvincing fourth mystery to feature author Edna Ferber (after 2012’s Make Believe). Amid rehearsals for the musical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Conducting refreshingly engaging interviews with top Hollywood stars. It is rather well known that the 1956 film Giant remains one ...

In her day, Edna Ferber was one of America’s most famous and successful writers, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. “Show Boat,” the much revived musical, is based on her novel. “Stage Door,” the ...

There have been many stories about Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean bonding during the production of George Stevens’ epic “Giant” in Marfa, Texas, in 1955. Though not exactly a “Harold & Maude” ...

Edna Ferber did not want James Dean to play Jett Rink, the brutish ranch hand turned dissolute millionaire oil magnate from her 1952 novel “Giant.” ‘ She had imagined someone brawnier for the movie ...

Perhaps the most enduring scene in “Giant,” the 1956 movie based on Edna Ferber’s novel of the same name, is the moment when Jett Rink, played by James Dean, strikes oil on his bleak West Texas patch ...

Author Julie Gilbert will discuss her latest book about novelist Edna Ferber in a pair of upcoming events. Because Gilbert is Edna Ferber's great niece, she had access to a trove of private documents ...

In GIANT LOVE, author/playwright Julie Gilbert, Ferber's great-niece, explores Ferber's writing of the controversial international bestseller, "Giant." The novel set off a storm of protest over its ...

Ifkovic’s promising debut, the first in a series, features real-life writer Edna Ferber as an amateur sleuth in 1955 Hollywood. The Pulitzer Prize winner is visiting there because her bestselling ...

GREAT SON—Edna Ferber—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). If, as Edna Ferber once remarked, “writing a novel is like plodding along a dirt road ankle deep in mud,” she is easily one of the world’s most ...