Edna Ferber

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1885 age 0

   Born

2. 1956 age 71

   CreditGiantscreenwriter

3. 1968 age 82

   Died

• DHDennis Hopper1 title
• RTRod Taylor1 title
• DTDimitri Tiomkin1 title
• WHWilliam Hornbeck1 title
• JEJudith Evelyn1 title
• BLBoris Leven1 title
• PFPaul Fix1 title
• ECElsa Cárdenas1 title
• SMSal Mineo1 title
• ETElizabeth Taylor1 title

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  Photo:Theatre Magazine Company; Nickolas Muray, photographerPublic domain

• It is a pattern of self-immolation familiar to any writer worth reading. The writer does not even remotely look upon this as a hardship. It is a way of life; a necessary an chosen way of life. Witty conversation, purposely dull dialogue, love, murder, marriage, birth, violence, triumph, failure, death—anything can happen in that room.

  Edna Ferber, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The sharp-tongued Kitty O’Hara used to say that being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.

  Edna Ferber, CC BY-SA 4.0

• "It's just something that only luck or an accident can mend," said the nerve specialist. "Time may do it but I doubt it. Sometimes just a word-the right word-will set the thing in motion again. Does he get any letters?"

  Edna Ferber, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It marked an epoch in Chet's life-that letter. It reached out across the Atlantic Ocean from the Chester Ball of his Chicago days, before he had

  Edna Ferber, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The persecution, torture, and death of six million European Jews had actually brought little or no protest from a Christian world whose religion was based on the teachings of a Jew.

  Edna Ferber, CC BY-SA 4.0

• All the way from Maugham and de Maupassant and Chekhov to Ring Lardner the short story has served to portray the characteristics, the habits, the manners, the morals, the emotions of a nation, a whole people. Certainly I knew no such highfalutin arguments as these when first I began to write short stories. I wrote short stories for the same reason that a child has who begins to walk after he has learned to stand up and to balance himself. It was for me the next natural step following newspaper reporting. I still think it is one of the most exhilarating and the most difficult forms of the writing art. When a reader says, "Oh, only a short story!" he has me to fight. There is something about the pace of the short story that catches the tempo of this country. If it is written with sincerity and skill it portrays a mood, a character, a background, or a situation. Sometimes it is not only typically American, it is universal in its feeling; sometimes its inherent truth is not a thing of the

  Edna Ferber, CC BY-SA 4.0