Silver Pages on the Lawn: A Student Love Story of the Depression Years of the 1930s

Product Description Silver Pages on the Lawn is the true story of student lovers during the depression days of the 1930s. Their star-crossed romance endured parental disapproval as well as the want of time, money and privacy. To bridge long separations they had to make love by mail. Their passionate letters, poignant and poetic, form the heart of their history. The memoir also paints a dramatic picture of the difficult years they lived through - the lack of jobs, the hopeless future, the dark clouds of dictatorship over Europe - and of the steadfast love that survived it all and carried them through to the life they dreamed of. Nora Lourie Percival was a student at Barnard College in Columbia University in New York City when she met her first love, Herman Gund. A journalism student at Columbia, he endured many struggles before he became a newspaperman. About the Author Nora Lourie Percival was born just after World War I began, in Samara, on the Volga River in Russia. The revolution drove her father out of the country to safety, and her family lived through a civil war and a famine. These tribulations were recorded in "Weather of the Heart," her first memoir. In 1922 the family was reunited in New York, where Nora grew up. The author’s career has been largely in the editorial field. She has worked for Random House, the American Management Association, and Barnard College. Now long retired, she is still writing and doing free-lance editing. An only child, she has raised five children and now has eleven grandchildren, all wonders. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina, where she enjoys the natural beauties and is inspired by the literary renaissance in the South.