Precognition -- The varmint -- The blaze -- Autumn in New York -- More was more -- Filming where? -- Ferber on the set -- Rolf -- Turnupseed -- True grief -- Waiting for George Stevens's Giant -- Final cut -- George Stevens's production of Giant -- Carumba! -- Roundup -- And the winner -- Giant Ferber In her time; why not today?

"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"--