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==Legacy== *Ferber was portrayed by the actress [[Lili Taylor]] in the film ''[[Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle]]'' (1994).<ref>{{cite web|title=Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110588/|website=Imdb.com|date=November 23, 1994|access-date=September 27, 2015}}</ref> *In 2008, [[The Library of America]] selected Ferber's article "Miss Ferber Views 'Vultures' at Trial" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime. *On July 29, 2002, in her hometown of [[Appleton, Wisconsin]], the U.S. Postal Service issued an 83Β’ [[Distinguished Americans series]] postage stamp honoring her. Artist Mark Summers, well known for his [[scratchboard]] technique, created this portrait for the stamp referencing a black-and-white photograph of Ferber taken in 1927.<ref>{{cite web | author=The Postal Store | title=Distinguished Americans Series: Edna Ferber | url=http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10152&storeId=10001&categoryId=11834&productId=13908&langId=-1 | publisher=United States Postal Service | year=2008 | access-date=August 9, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080507150638/http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10152&storeId=10001&categoryId=11834&productId=13908&langId=-1 |archive-date = May 7, 2008}}</ref> *A fictionalized version of Edna Ferber appears briefly as a character in [[Philipp Meyer]]'s novel ''The Son'' (2013). *Another fictionalized Edna Ferber, with herself as the protagonist, appears in a series of mystery novels by Ed Ifkovic, published by [[Poisoned Pen Press]], including ''Downtown Strut: An Edna Ferber Mystery'', written in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.poisonedpenpress.com/downtown-strut/ |title=Downtown Strut: An Edna Ferber Mystery #4 β Discover Mystery Books with Poisoned Pen Press |access-date=June 28, 2016 |archive-date=July 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160714101131/http://www.poisonedpenpress.com/downtown-strut/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> *In 2013, Ferber was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/edna-ferber |title=Edna Ferber |date=2013 |website=Chicago Literary Hall of Fame |language=en |access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> *In her hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin, the Edna Ferber Elementary School was named after her.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ferber.aasd.k12.wi.us/home|title=Home|website=ferber.aasd.k12.wi.us}}</ref> Construction of the school was initially voted down in a 1971 referendum.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ferber School Issue Raised Again|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3845711/ferber_elementary_school_appleton_wi/|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|date=October 2, 1973|page=9|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date =December 18, 2015 }} {{Open access}}</ref>
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