Author Edna Ferber was one of the most famous authors of her time — from the time her first book was published in the 1910s until the early 1960s. Ferber won a Pulitzer Prize in 1925 and was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers who had lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. Many of Ferber’s stories focus on strong women who often differ with their husbands. Despite her prestige for nearly 50 years, Ferber as a writer is largely forgotten today. However, her work lives on in her books and in the film adaptations derived from her books.