Edna Ferber was an American novelist and playwright who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel So Big. She was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1885 and moved to Chicago at the age of 15. Her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, was published in 1911 and she went on to write many more novels, plays, and short stories. Her most famous works include Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. So Big was published in 1924 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925.