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Julie Gilbert

Biography

Julie Gilbert

Julie Gilbert was born in New York City and was educated at Boston University. She is the author of five books, among them a biography of her great aunt, Edna Ferber, EDNA FERBER AND HER CIRCLE AND OPPOSITE ATTRACTION: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard.

Gilbert is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Writers Guild of America, East, The Authors Guild, Actors’ Equity and League of Professional Theater Women. She has taught Creative Writing at New York University’s School of Continuing Education and currently heads The Writers Academy at The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida where she lives part time, as well as in New York City.

Julie Gilbert

Books by Julie Gilbert

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
by Julie Gilbert - Biography, Nonfiction, Performing Arts

The stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's GIANT in 1952 set off a storm of protest over the novel's portrayal of Texas manners, money and mores, with oil-rich Texans threatening to shoot, lynch or ban Ferber from ever entering the state again. In GIANT LOVE, Julie Gilbert writes of the internationally bestselling Ferber, one of the most widely read writers in the first half of the 20th century --- her evolution from mid-west maverick girl-reporter to Pulitzer Prize-winning, beloved American novelist, from her want-to-be actress days to becoming Broadway's acclaimed prize-winning playwright whose collaborators were, along with Ferber herself, the most successful playwrights of their time. Here is the making of an American classic novel and the film that followed in its wake.