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Cimarron

by Edna Ferber

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First published: 1929
Pages: 265

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About this book

Edna Ferber opens with the wild land rush of 1889 and rides Oklahoma's growth across forty years, from raw frontier town to oil-rich state. At the center are Yancey Cravat, a magnetic, restless lawyer and adventurer forever chasing the next horizon, and his wife Sabra, who stays behind to build a newspaper, raise a family, and hold a community together. Ferber uses their marriage to trace the making of the American West, with a clear eye for the greed, courage, and prejudice mixed into it. Published in 1929, the novel was a huge success and became the basis for the Academy Award winning film. It is a broad, spirited saga of ambition and settlement.

About the author

Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright from Kalamazoo, Michigan. She won the Pulitzer Prize for So Big and wrote the sweeping regional novels behind Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. A member of the Algonquin Round Table, she chronicled ordinary American lives.