Paint the Wind by Alberta Pierson Hannum

'Alberta Pierson Hannum.' e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Known the world over through translation of her works into Italian, Korean, Laotian, Russian, and Yugoslavian, Hannum died in Arlington, Virginia. 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. If you are interested in this item, we would also like to recommend these other related items: Harrison Begay, Diné Artist of the Navajo Nation. 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). Hannum, born in Ohio and a graduate of Ohio State University, has lived in West Virginia since by Alberta Pierson Hannum Paint the Wind SOLD by Alberta Pierson Hannum Adobe Gallery Recommended Items. 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. Known the world over through translation of her works into Italian, Korean, Laotian, Russian, and Yugoslavian, Alberta Pierson Hannum died in Arlington, Virginia.Writer Alberta Pierson Hannum (AugFebruary 18, 1985) was born in Condit, Ohio, and spent the greater part of her life in the Wheeling area. 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. 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).

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. E-WV | Alberta Pierson Hannum | Back to e-WV The West Virginia Encyclopedia

Paint the Wind by Alberta Pierson Hannum