Bookm. 16 ('02): 16 (portrait); 47 ('18): 398.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1921.
+Edna Ferber+--short-story writer, novelist.
Born at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1887. Educated in the public and high
schools of Appleton, Wisconsin. Began newspaper work at seventeen as
reporter on the _Appleton Daily Crescent_. Later, employed on the
_Milwaukee Journal_ and the _Chicago Tribune_.
Miss Ferber's special contribution to American Literature thus far has
been through her studies of American women in business.