Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas and the Making of a Classic American Film; By Julie Gilbert; Pantheon; 386 pp., $35.00 Ferber, however, won literary acclaim when few women ...

In her day, Edna Ferber was one of America’s most famous and successful writers, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. “Show Boat,” the much revived musical, is based on her novel. “Stage Door,” the ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Ferber was attacked not only for being a carpetbagger, but also for having a progressive agenda. Through her heroine, who comes to the Reata ranch when she ...

In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that’s now better known than the book. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...

“Why,” Elizabeth Taylor’s character Leslie Lynnton Benedict says upon arriving in her new home in the motion picture “Giant,” “you talk about Texas as if it were a state of mind.” No doubt that same ...

The Final Jeopardy question for February 28, 2025 is in the category of “Famous Names” and has the following clue: As a young reporter in Appleton, Wisconsin, Edna Ferber interview this hometown ...

Perhaps the most enduring scene in “Giant,” the 1956 movie based on Edna Ferber’s novel of the same name, is the moment when Jett Rink, played by James Dean, strikes oil on his bleak West Texas patch ...

Released Nov. 24, 1956, the movie Giant was a blockbuster hit. It earned $35 million in ticket sales during its original ...