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    Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
    Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
    Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
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    Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed

    By Edna Ferber

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 21, 2003
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    Edna Ferber

    Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Jewish parents, Ferber was raised in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Economic hardship and antisemitism made their family a tight knit one as they moved constantly throughout Edna’s youth. At 17, she gave up her dream of studying to be an actor to support her family, finding work at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal as a reporter. In 1911, while recovering from anemia, Ferber published her debut novel, Dawn O’Hara: The Girl Who Laughed, earning a reputation as a rising star in American literature. In 1925, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big, which follows a young woman from a suburb of Chicago who takes a job as a teacher in a rural town. She followed up her critically acclaimed bestseller with the novel Show Boat (1926), which was adapted into a popular musical by Oscar Hammerstein and P. G. Wodehouse the year after its release. Several of her books became successful film and theater productions—So Big served as source material for a 1932 movie starring Barbara Stanwick, George Brent, and Bette Davis, which was remade in 1953 with Jane Wyman in the lead role. Ferber spent most of her life in New York City, where she became a member of the influential Algonquin Round Table group. In the leadup to the Second World War, Ferber supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was a fierce critic of Hitler and antisemitism around the world.

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      Narrated by the sparky Dawn,a newspaper reporter in 1910s America, the novel opens with her ill in hospital. Her husband - the once charming Peter Orme - is in an insane asylum, and she has been struggling to pay for his keep.Dawn goes to recuperate with her married sister and observes that 'being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.' But she also meets the wonderful Dr von Gerhard, a nerve specialist sent to treat her...But Dawn is a battler and soon resumes her career in Milwaukee, where her life is full of incident, some comic, some heartwarming and some tragic...This book really took off for me as I got into it, and I couldn't stop reading, wanting to know how it would all pan out for her

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