Edna Ferber Autograph

Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story "Old Man Minick", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go. More about Edna Ferber

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Ferber was born August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper, Jacob Charles Ferber, and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Julia (Neumann) Ferber, who was of German Jewish descent. The Ferbers had moved to Kalamazoo from Chicago, Illinois in order to open a dry goods store, and her older sister Fannie was born there three years earlier. Ferber's father was not adept at business, and the family moved often during Ferber's childhood. From Kalamazoo, they returned to Chicago for a year, and then moved to Ottumwa, Iowa where they resided from 1890 to 1897 (ages 5 to 12 for Ferber). In Ottumwa, Ferber and her family faced brutal anti-Semitism, including adult males verbally abusing, mocking and spitting on her on days when she brought lunch to her father, often mocking her in a Yiddish accent. According to Ferber, her years in Ottumwa "must be held accountable for anything in me that is hostile toward the world.". During this time, Ferber's father began to lose his eyesight, necessitating costly and ultimately unsuccessful treatments. At the age of 12, Ferber and her family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and later briefly attended Lawrence University.

After graduation, Ferber planned to study elocution, with vague thoughts of someday becoming an actor, but her family could not afford to send her to college. On the spur of the moment, she took a job as a cub reporter at the Appleton Daily Crescent and subsequently moved to the Milwaukee Journal. In early 1909 Ferber suffered a bout of anemia and returned to Appleton to recuperate. She never resumed her career as a reporter, although she subsequently covered the 1920 Republican National Convention and 1920 Democratic National Convention for the United Press Association. Read even more about Edna Ferber at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Edna Ferber

In total, we tracked 85 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.

The most expensive item with a signature of Edna Ferber (NobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} Rare Moss Hart Signed Letters to Edna Ferber) was sold in June 2017 for $776.88 while the cheapest item (EDNA FERBER - SIGNATURE(S)) found a new owner for $0.99 in May 2014. The month with the most items sold (61) was December 2017 with an average selling price of $30.00 for an autographed item of Edna Ferber. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in June 2017 with $776.88 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $10.00 was January 2012. In average, an autographed item from Edna Ferber is worth $34.00.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Edna Ferber were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

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thumbnailEdna Ferber (Author) 1962 - AUTOGRAPH LETTER Signed$32.55logo
thumbnailEdna Ferber - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author - Signed Postal Cover $42.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} Adela St. Johns Signed Letter To Edna Ferber$26.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} Hudson Strode Signed Letter To Edna Ferber 1930$20.50logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} Lewis Ruskin Signed Letter To Novelist Edna Ferber$52.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} Rare Leland Hayward Signed Letter Edna Ferber 1944$34.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} Rare William A. White Signed Letter To Edna Ferber$5.70logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} Wendell L. Willkie Signed Letter 1942 Edna Ferber$54.37logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} William A. White Signed Letter To Edna Ferber 1917$62.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} William A. White Signed Letter To Edna Ferber 1918$42.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} William A. White Signed Letter To Edna Ferber 1919$32.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} William A. White Signed Letter To Edna Ferber 1920$42.66logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} William A. White Signed Letter To Edna Ferber 1937$45.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} William A. White Signed Letter To Edna Ferber 1938$44.00logo
thumbnailNobleSpirit NO RESERVE {3970} William A. White Signed Photo To Edna Ferber$21.50logo