Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.

Theater and Film Critic, Hap Erstein will have a Conversation with Julie Gilbert, Pulitzer Prize-nominated biographer, novelist, playwright. Julie Gilbert is also the Founder and instructor of The Writers’ Academy at the Kravis Center which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary.