1. Ferber, Edna. Come and Get It. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran; 1935. 518 p.Notes: This novel about the plundering of the vast Wisconsin and Michigan forests is told through the story of the family of the owner of a papermill located in Neenah, Wisconsin in the Fox River Valley. The prolific author, Edna Ferber, was popular during the first half of the 1900s and was known for usually setting her novels in different regions of the United States and for being among the first to feature intelligent and resourceful women among the main characters of her books. Ferber, who graduated from high school in Appleton, Wisconsin, started her writing career as a reporter in Wisconsin (first for two years at the Appleton Daily Crescent, where she was their first female newspaper reporter, and then for three years at the Milwaukee Journal). Besides her short stories, novels and two autobiographies, Ferber is also known for having co-authored some successful Broadway plays with George S. Kaufman. Ferber was the first Jewish-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for a novel, which she won in 1925 for So Big. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin holds the principal collection of Ferber’s papers.
  1. Dawn O’Hara: The Girl Who Laughed. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.; 1911. 302 p.Notes: This novel is the story of a newspaperwoman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The prolific author, Edna Ferber, was popular during the first half of the 1900s and was known for usually setting her novels in different regions of the United States and for being among the first to feature intelligent and resourceful women among the main characters of her books. Ferber, who graduated from high school in Appleton, Wisconsin, started her writing career as a reporter in Wisconsin (first for two years at the Appleton Daily Crescent, where she was their first female newspaper reporter, and then for three years at the Milwaukee Journal). Besides her short stories, novels and two autobiographies, Ferber is also known for having co-authored some successful Broadway plays with George S. Kaufman. Ferber was the first Jewish-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for the novel which she won in 1925 for So Big. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin holds the principal collection of Ferber’s papers.
  1. Taber, Gladys. A Star to Steer By: A Novel. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Macrae-Smith-Company; 1938. 285 p.Notes: The main characters in this novel, set in a Wisconsin mill town, are the mill owner and his family; the story’s major conflict features a labor organizer and a strike by the mill workers. Taber was raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. This novel is mentioned in Neufeld’s A Representative Bibliography of American Labor History (1964). Published in England as Steadfast Star (London: Methuen, 1940).Reviewed: Booklist 35:158 January 1, 1939. Reviewed: Bell, Lisle (reviewer). Books p. 40 November 13, 1938 (350 words; +). Reviewed: Boston Transcript p. 2 December 31, 1938 (320 words). Reviewed: New York Times p. 20 November 6, 1938 (150 words; +). Reviewed: Wisconsin Library Bulletin 35:15 January 1939.

    Sequel: This Is For Always (Philadelphia, Pa.: Macrae Smith Company, 1938). 256 p. Reviewed: Bell, Lisle (reviewer). Books p.11 February 6, 1938 (70 words). Reviewed: Dean, Charlotte (reviewer). New York Times p. 20 February 6, 1938 [sic] (180 words).