Tag: Cimarron

Cimarron is the title of a novel published by popular historical fiction author Edna Ferber in 1929. The book was adapted into a critically acclaimed film in 1931 through RKO Pictures. In 1960, the story was again adapted for the screen to meager success by MGM. Both the novel and 1931 film have fallen out of favor due to perceived racism.
Born on August 15, 1885, in Michigan, Ferber had lived through the latter development of the West. She also grew up on the stories of her parents and grandparents, who had moved west from New York many years before her birth. Her writing career began as a journalist, and Ferber published her first novel in 1911. Ferber’s early works were mostly light romance. It was not until 1924’s So Big that Ferber’s career as a novelist came to fruition. That novel, about love and sacrifice in the Midwest, earned Ferber a Pulitzer Prize. She then immersed herself in historical epics, following So Big first with Show Boat, based on and around the Mississippi…