Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber from her autobiography, A Peculiar Treasure
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
ACROSTIC, Puzzle by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon, edited by Will Shortz
Edna Ferber was a prolific and popular novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for So Big, the story of a woman raising a child on a truck farm outside of Chicago. Others of her best known books include Showboat (1926), Cimarron (1929), Giant (1952) and Ice Palace (1958). Showboat, about a girl's life on the floating theater of the Mississippi River, was made into a musical comedy on Broadway and three motion pictures. So Big was adapted into two films. Giant, a story of life in Texas, starred Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson on the big screen and was James Dean's last movie.
Ferber wrote two autobiographies -- A Peculiar Treasure published in 1939 and A Kind of Magic in 1963. The earlier of the two is the subject of today’s acrostic.
Quotation: ONLY AMATEURS say that they WRITE FOR THEIR OWN AMUSEMENT. WRITING IS NOT AN AMUSING OCCUPATION. IT IS A COMBINATION OF DITCH-DIGGING, MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING, TREADMILL AND CHILDBIRTH. IT MAY BE ABSORBING, exhilarating, RACKING, RELIEVING. BUT AMUSING? NEVER!
Author’s name and the title of the work: FERBER A PECULIAR TREASURE
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