News 88.7 in partnership with Humanities Texas launches Texas Originals — a new weekly radio segment profiling individuals whose lives and achievements have had a profound influence upon Texas history and culture.
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Novelist Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber (1887–1968) In the 1920s and 30s, Edna Ferber was one of the most widely read writers in America. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1924 novel So Big. Another of her novels, Showboat, became a popular musical and a hit film. But perhaps no other work of Ferber’s is remembered as well—at least in Texas—as Giant.Published in 1952, Giant tells the story of a young Virginia woman named Leslie Lynnton who marries a... Read More