Talk:Edna Ferber

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Don't we have a better photo of her? That one looks way to pixilated when blown up. There, I've added a larger version of the same photo.Notahippie76 22:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Referenced info Sexuality

Please do not revert referenced info. Thank you. Info is taken from distinguished literary critic John Sutherland in book published by Oxford University Press. If you look on page 53 of that book you will find info in support of deleted statement: "According to some sources, Ferber was a lesbian." See Professor John Unsworth, quoted in John Sutherland (2007) Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction. OUP: 53. Prof Unsworth says that she was the "first nearly openly lesbian bestselling author". Colin4C (talk) 18:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC) Of course it is lies. Where do people come up with the 2+2=5 notion that just because one never marries, one must be gay or lesbian? It is ludicrous. 17 November 2017[reply]

I have never heard of Sutherland or Unsworth. In the three biographies on Ferber and her two autobiographies there is no mention of any relationships with women. I believe this statement should be struck from the article. -- K72ndst (talk) 23:18, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sutherland is one of the foremost literary critics of today. See the wikipedia article John Sutherland (author). If you look on page 53 of the book I mention you will see that it says that Ferber was the "first nearly openly lesbian bestselling author". Please do not delete this referenced info. I have given you page references and quotes, you please do the same. What I have stated is one of only three referenced statements in this entire article! All the rest is original research unsupported by references. If you want to go on a blind deleting spree delete the unreferenced material not the referenced stuff! Colin4C (talk) 23:50, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I had a look at the Sutherland book, and I also dug up a collection of other references, and I have to agree with K72ndst, the claim that she's a lesbian is dubious, and I think it's problematic to open the section on her personal life with the statement "According to some sources, Ferber was a lesbian", especially when you're not giving "some" sources, you're giving one source. So as a compromise, I moved the whole discussion into a footnote, and added three other references. One is an encyclopedia, which, if you check, offers at best circumstantial evidence; the second is a treatise by Porter on Katherine Hepburn which contains a passing reference without support, and which gets trashed on Amazon. The third is Ferber's great niece's biography, which never mentions lesbianism but which, for all we know, is a whitewash in the other direction. This way, the info is there for people who want to dig deeper, without making what feels like too authoritative a statement in the main body of the article. I hope this will satisfy everyone. Jeffrw (talk) 11:15, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]