Known the world over through translation of her works into Italian, Korean, Laotian, Russian, and Yugoslavian, Alberta Pierson Hannum died in Arlington, Virginia. Hannum was also successful as a public lecturer, recognized in 1938 by the New York Times as one of the top women speakers in the country. Spin a Silver Dollar was released as a radio play in 1946 and published as The Blue House by the U.S. Roseanna McCoy, about the Hatfield-McCoy feud, was released by RKO General as a motion picture in 1949.
Hannum’s other novels include The Hills Step Lightly (1934), The Gods and One (1941), The Mountain People (1943), and two books set outside the mountains, Spin a Silver Dollar: The Story of a Desert Trading Post (1945) and a novel about Navajos, Paint the Wind (1958). Her works showed an early interest in life in the Appalachians, beginning with her first novel Thursday April (1931) and continuing through Roseanna McCoy (1947) and the memoir, Look Back with Love: A Recollection of the Blue Ridge (1969). A graduate of Ohio State University (B.A., 1927) with graduate study at Columbia University in 1928, Hannum was the wife of Robert Fulton Hannum, the president of Fostoria Glass Company. Writer Alberta Pierson Hannum (August 3, 1906-February 18, 1985) was born in Condit, Ohio, and spent the greater part of her life in the Wheeling area. Paint the Wind Mass Market Paperback Januby Alberta Hannum (Author) 7 ratings Hardcover 49.95 19 Used from 3.75 1 New from 49.95 3 Collectible from 7.95 Paperback 11.25 3 Used from 11.25 Mass Market Paperback 6.98 10 Used from 3. Ref W1.E-WV | Alberta Pierson Hannum | Back to e-WV The West Virginia Encyclopedia This book is a sequel to 'Spin A Silver Dollar' which I am also selling on this site. This book is illustrated with colour reproductions of the boy artist's work. At an early age, Yazz met the Lippencotts, traders at the Wide Ruins Trading Post and they made available to him scraps of paper and other equipment so that he might practice in colour. Yazz showed promise as an artist very early. Beatien Yazz, Little No Shirt (Jimmy Toddy) was born in 1928 on the Navajo Reservation. With their help and encouragement the young boy's art was to flourish into a startling individual talent as he painted the panorama of the desert and Navaho village life. William and Sallie Lippincott who ran the trading post during the years 1938 to 1949, noticed the shy Navaho boy scratching a drawing on a rock with a sharpened stone. The Wide Ruins Trading Post was established in 1885 at the site of a large prehistoric settlement called Kin Teel, meaning "wide house". The dustwrapper has been covered in clear librafilm and is such in very good condition for a book of this age.
otherwise it is fine unmarked condition, tight and bright. This copy has a bookplate to the half title to the f.e.p. Viking Press, New York 1958 First Edition.
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