Edna Ferber
Birth date: August 15, 1885
Died: April 16, 1968
Edna Ferber's Books
Knulp by Herman Hesse Knulp is intelligent and witty and everyone likes him, but he has turned his back on having a career or a home or any of the conventional trappings of success. Instead he travels around, sleeping in fields and visiting friends. Because he’s so happy and charming, he has frien...
After ten years on the road as the Midwestern sales representative for T.A. Buck’s Featherloom skirts and petticoats the savvy, stylish, tell-it-like-it-is Emma McChesney now shares a New York City apartment with her plucky 21-year-old son Jock. She shares this story with him too--Emma’s busy being ...
bookshelves: winter-20102011, published-1926, re-read, play-dramatisation, racism, gambling, north-americas, period-piece Recommended for: Brazilliant Laura Read in February, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** WOOT BBC SUNDAY Dramatised by Moya O'SheaKim.....................Lysette AnthonyMagnolia............
WOOT BBC SUNDAY Dramatised by Moya O'SheaKim.....................Lysette AnthonyMagnolia..............Samantha SpiroParthy..................Laurel LefkowAndy....................Morgan DeareYoung Magnolia....Shahrazad MatthewsGaylord................Ryan McCluskeyJulie.....................Samantha Dak...
Many people remember Dorothy Parker, and if you are a Marx Brothers fan you may remember George S. Kaufman, but few remember the likes of Robert Benchley or Heywood Broun. This book does a fine job of reminding readers of the writers and wits who frequented the Algonquin Hotel in the 1920's.