Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CIMARRON?Edna Ferber?Doubleday, Doran...
...Author Edna Ferber writes novels that thousands read. That she chose such a subject as Cimarron's is an indication of the growing interest of U. S. readers in the history of their country. For Cimarron, now the name of an Oklahoma county, once meant the lawless no-man's-land between Texas and Oklahoma which in the '80s was a. wilderness of free cattle range. In Cimarron Author Ferber tells how the Territory was settled; how it became gradually civilized, then suddenly rich from its oil. Now full-blood Osage Indians, bemillioned overnight, ride blanketed in limousines and leave...
...Author. Says Author Edna Ferber: "Only the more fantastic and improbable events in this book are true. . . . Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has." Author Ferber, unmarried, 42, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., of Jewish parents, now lives in Manhattan. A reporter at 17, she worked on the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, wrote her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911. Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying...
...0thers: Poet Edna Vincent Millay, Feminist Ruth Hale, Writer Michael Gold, Humorist Dorothy Parker, Playwright John Howard Lawson...
Married. Dudley Field Malone, merry international divorce lawyer; and a Miss Edna Louise Johnson of Brooklyn, music student; in London. She is his third wife (Doris Stevens, feminist, divorced him last fall). Explaining why he did not want to pose for photographers with a background of glasses and liquor bottles at the wedding breakfast, said he: "Remember, I am an American?but God knows...