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.