Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edna Ferber...
...Edna Ferber's So Big is an unusually fine novel. A portrait of a boy and his mother, with a finely sketched background of Chicago, and a fundamental theme which shows the development of various attitudes toward the beauty of life-it stands out as unforgettable...
...Miss Ferber is at once finely intuitive and keenly observant. She is that most unusual person, the interpretative reporter ; for she can not only see the events which are tramping about her; she knows well the souls of events. She is eager, tender, possessed of a magnificent tolerance, in spite of a firm ethical creed-and her artistic creed is similar; for, while she might permit herself to experiment, she never gropes, is never sloppy in her style...
...Take On a Desert Island," and their like, eleven well known writers and critics, questioned by Vanity Fair, " Who are, to your mind, the ten dullest authors "I " make frank confession of their pet literary abominations. The questionees are as diverse as possible -George Jean Nathan, Christopher Morley, Edna Ferber, James Branch Cabell, Hugh Walpole are five of the number - and they certainly agitate the pedestals of many accepted literary deities...
...Edna Ferber will attend the Republican and Democratic National Conventions and write them up from the view-point of the famous Edna McChesney...