Iola Fuller (

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, January 25, 1906 – April 12, 1993), later Iola Fuller Goodspeed McCoy, was an American writer. Her first novel, ''The Loon Feather'', won the 1939

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from the University of Michigan. Set primarily on

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in the early 1800s, it is a tale of the life of the daughter of American Indian leader

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. During World War II, 150,000 copies of the book were printed as

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, inexpensive paperbacks which the Army and Navy Library Services distributed free of charge to members of the American armed forces. Personal On June 28, 1927 in Marcellus, Michigan, she married Edwin W. Goodspeed. They divorced in 1947. On July 5, 1947, she married Raymond Arthur McCoy. Sh
died on April 12, 1993
in Littleton, Colorado.

Selected works

* ''The Loon Feather'' (1940) * ''The Shining Trail'' (1943) * ''The Gilded Torch'' (1957) * ''All the Golden Gifts'' (1966)

References

1906 births 1993 deaths University of Michigan alumni 20th-century American writers 20th-century American women writers {{US-novelist-1900s-stub