Edna Ferber: One Hundred Percent

Written by Edna Ferber

Narrated by philip chenevert

Edna Ferber, known for her prize winning novels such as Show Boat, Cimarron and Giant, writes a delightful story here of Emma McChesney, no longer a successful traveling salesperson for a New York dress manufacturer, as she now enjoys her marriage to a wonderful man. Both successful in their areas they live in New York and have two children. But this is during the Great War and Emma goes from designing better uniforms for the doughboys to actually joining the military. Her keen intelligence and organizational ability find an outlet here worthy of her mettle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Philip Chenevert
• Release date: Jan 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9798868730795

Edna Ferber

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was a novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose work served as the inspiration for numerous Broadway plays and Hollywood films, including Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant, Saratoga Trunk, and Ice Palace. She co-wrote the plays The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight, and Stage Door with George S. Kaufman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big.