Hopwood Novel With State Setting To Be Published - The Loon Feather

Hopwood Novel With State Setting To Be Published

“The Loon Feather,” novel written by Iola Fuller, University graduate student, which last year won a $2,000 University Hopwood Award, is being published by Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., and will be released Feb. 22, it was announced today.

Action of the story takes place on Mackinac Island during early fur trading days. The publishers' notice states that to their knowledge this is the first historical novel to be published in many years which uses the Great Lakes area as a background.

The Hopwood judges considered the novel so outstanding among the entries that they awarded for it the full amount available last year for fiction prizes.

The authoress received an A.B. degree with high distinction from the University in 1934 and for the last three years has been studying part time in the University towards an M.A. degree, majoring in creative writing. She is the wife of Eugene Goodspeed, a research chemist in Detroit.

Born in Marcellus, Miss Fuller lived there until she was graduated from high school. She attended Western State Teachers College at Kalamazoo before coming to the University. She concentrated on French, German and English in her studies here and received her degree in education, later teaching English and French in high school.