Description | Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Ferber's novels generally featured strong female protagonists, along with a rich and diverse collection of supporting characters. She usually highlighted at least one strong secondary character who faced discrimination, ethnic or otherwise. Ferber's works often concerned small subsets of American culture, and sometimes took place in exotic locations she had visited but was not intimately familiar with, like Texas or Alaska. She thus helped to highlight the diversity of American culture to those who did not have the opportunity to experience it. Some novels are set in places she hadn't visited Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Fer... |