SHOW BOAT
BY
EDNA FERBER
AUTHOR OF
“SO BIG,” Etc.
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY EDNA FERBER.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN
THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY
LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
To
Winthrop Ames
Who First Said Show Boat
to Me
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Show Boat is a 1926 novel by American author and dramatist Edna Ferber. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s. The story moves from the Reconstruction Era riverboat to Gilded Age Chicago to Roaring Twenties New York, and finally returns to the Mississippi River. Wikipedia
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About the Author
Edna Ferber
(1885 - 1968) wrote short stories, plays and novels which were adapting
into sizzling, popular movies. Ferber's work generally featured strong
female protagonists, supported by characters who had to overcome some
form of discrimination, or who weren't the "pretty people." She tended
to favor these characters the most, perhaps as a result of her
straight-forward midwestern upbringing. Ferber spent her early years in
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, attended Lawrence University
briefly, then became a reporter. She covered both the Democratic and
Republican National Conventions for the United Press Association before
turning to writing her popular novels.
Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.
Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat,
Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace, which also received a film adaptation in
1960.
Wikipedia
Born: August 15, 1885, Kalamazoo, MI
Died: April 16, 1968, New York, NY
Notable awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1925)
Parents: Jacob Charles Ferber and Julia Ferber
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