Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A newspaperwoman, sick and broke, with a husband in an asylum she cannot divorce, goes to her sister in Milwaukee to recover and ends up back in a newsroom among the German-American brewers. Ferber was a reporter at seventeen and won the Pulitzer for So Big; this was her first novel, written while she was recovering from exactly the same collapse, and the newsroom is transcription. Sixty plates of sea and shore by Winslow Homer and John Sloan, the salt air and working light of the paintings matching the newsroom world Ferber knew firsthand.
A newspaperwoman, sick and broke, with a husband in an asylum she cannot divorce, goes to her sister in Milwaukee to recover and ends up back in a newsroom among the German-American brewers. Ferber was a reporter at seventeen and won the Pulitzer for So Big; this was her first novel, written whil...
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Edna Ferber (1885–1968) was an American writer who began her career as a reporter in Wisconsin. She published her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911, and went on to produce a series of story collections and novels, including Buttered Side Down, Emma McChesney and Co., Fanny Herself, and One Basket.
Edna Ferber (1885–1968) was an American writer who began her career as a reporter in Wisconsin. She published her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911, and went on to produce a series of story collections and novels, including Buttered Side Down, Emma McChesney and Co., Fanny Herself, and One Basket.
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