{ "item_title" : "Ferber", "item_author" : [" Julie Gilbert "], "item_description" : "December 1927 was a great month for American theatre, and an even better one for Edna Ferber. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's musical Show Boat (a work based on Ferber's novel of 1926) opened (and changed musical-theatre history) on December 2. Four weeks later, on December 29th, The Royal Family, a play authored by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, opened and became Broadway's (and Edna's) second big hit of that magical month. Fast forward to Broadway in the Nineties what's one of the biggest and best-reviewed musicals? Show Boat! Edna Ferber was one of the richest nuggets during a Golden Age of American theatre and literature. George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Richard Rogers, Alexander Woollcott, Oscar Hammerstein, and Jerome Kern were not only her contemporaries, but her friends, and, in the case of Kaufman, her collaborator. In Ferber, Julie Goldsmith Gilbert at long last gives Edna her due. Gilbert writes of Ferber and her contemporaries as though she were their intimate -- which in a way she was. Gilbert is the grand niece of Edna Ferber. She was at the writer's side when she died at 83 in 1968. In this loving but open-eyed biography, Gilbert has written the first and the most authoritative record of her grand aunt's remarkable life and career.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/55/783/332/155783332X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "18.99", "online_price" : "18.99", "our_price" : "18.99", "club_price" : "18.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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