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While home in Appleton recuperating from anemia, she wrote her first short story and her first novel. In 1910, Everybody's Magazine published the short story, "The Homely Heroine," set in Appleton. Her
novel, Dawn O'Hara, the story of a newspaperwoman in Milwaukee, followed in 1911. She gained national attention for her series of Emma McChesney stories, tales of a traveling underskirt saleswoman that
were published in national magazines. She wrote 30 Emma stories before finally refusing to do any more. Her first play, Our Mrs. McChesney, was produced in 1915, starring Ethel Barrymore.
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. Her other best known works include
Showboat (1926), Cimarron (1929), Giant (1952) and Ice Palace (1958). She died of cancer at age 82 on April 16, 1968.
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