Category: Horse books for adults
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Keane, Molly
About the author Molly Keane (1904–96), author of Good Behaviour and Time after Time, also wrote under the pseudonym M J Farrell, under which name she wrote several stories based on hunting life, and Red Letter Days. Molly Keane was born Molly Skrine, and spent her childhood in Ireland and Bath. It was a lonely…
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McAulay, Sara
About the author Sara McAulay was born in Washington, D.C. She grew up in northern Virginia, like her heroine in Catch Rides, Annie. She went to seven colleges, with five different majors, and graduated from California State University. She has also written two plays for children, and during the 1970s was a Fellow in Fiction…
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Francis, Dick
About the author Dick Francis (Richard Stanley Francis, 1920–2010) was the first of the jockeys-turned-author. He was born in Pembrokeshire, and the family moved to Berkshire and Horace Smith’s Holyport stables, where Dick’s father worked. Dick’s schooling happened when he wasn’t riding, which his father considered more important in the general scheme of things. During…
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Walker, Elizabeth
About the author According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Walker is one of the pseudonyms under which the American author Elizabeth Neff Walker writes. She writes romantic novels. It may well be that more of her books than I have here involve horses. She also writes historical romances set in the Regency period, under the name Laura…
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Vezzoli, Gary
About the author Dr Gary Christopher Vezzoli was a PhD research physicist: the understanding of mechanics this gave him he felt enabled him to understand the “harmonious motion of the horse-rider team”. He was a commissioned officer in the U S Army Reserve and also taught equitation: he wrote Superior Horsemanship: Learning and Teaching the…
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Streeter, Edward
About the author Edward Streeter (1891–1976) was an American author. He was educated at Harvard, and served in World War I, during which time he wrote his Dere Mabel letters, the letters of an illiterate soldier writing home, published in the Buffalo Express. When he returned from the war, he worked in the financial sector…
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Miles, Stella
About the author Stella Miles was a British author, active in the 1950s and a competent writer of character-based whodunits. She wrote at least four murder mysteries, two of which (Murder at the Arab Stud and Saddled with Murder) have equestrian backgrounds. Whether the other books, Prescription for Murder and Murder Knows No Master have…
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Francome, John
About the author John Francome (b.1952) was a National Hunt Champion Jockey seven times. After retiring as a jockey, he worked as a racing pundit for Channel 4. He has followed the Dick Francis route and taken to writing racing thrillers. The first four of these were written with James MacGregor. The first, Eavesdropper, hasn’t…
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Bingham, Charlotte
About the author Charlotte Bingham was born in Haywards Heath, Sussex, to parents who were both writers. Charlotte left school at the age of 16, and went to Paris. She wrote, without getting published, for three years, until she was 19, at which point she wrote her autobiography, Coronet Among the Weeds, describing her time…
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Barstow, Phyllida
About the author Phyllida Barstow (b.1937) was one of five children, and spent her childhood on a farm in Radnorshire. She has worked as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, and has written 15 novels, as well as several non fiction works, including My Animals (And Other Family), the story of her…