Category: North American Authors
Short story collections (USA)
The books Short story collections were just as popular in America and Canada as they were in Britain. Listed below are just a sample of the horse story collections that have appeared over the years. Grateful thanks to Susan and Christina for all their help with this section. Titles The American Girl Book of Horse…
Farley, Walter – UK Printings
Many of us will know the paperbacks of the Black Stallion series, which were published in various editions by Knight, starting in the 1970s. I still have the few that were printed with the lovely pictorial cover illustrations (mostly uncredited: The Island Stallion’s Fury is by S Hagsted, so I assume the others are too).…
Sheridan, Ainslie
About the author Ainslie Sheridan was born in Long Island, New York, and was horse mad pretty much from the word go. Although she didn’t have a horse of her own, she managed to learn to ride, and leased a horse called Red, owned by the family of the manager of Bethpage State Park’s grounds:…
McCaffrey, Anne
About the author Anne McCaffrey (1928–2011) was educated at Radcliffe College, from where she graduated in Slavonic languages and literature. She started writing science fiction, and had several short stories published before the publication of her first novel, Restoree, in 1967. Dragonflight, the first of the Dragonriders of Pern series, followed in 1968. The Dragonriders…
Leland, Toni
About the author Toni Leland is an American author, editor and gardener. She fell in love with horses at the age of eight, and managed to get one of her own when she was 12. She has worked as an advertising consultant to the equine industry, and now produces books and videos about horses. She…
Hoag, Tami
About the author Tami Hoag (b.1959) was born in Iowa, and started her writing career with the “self-published, self-illustrated third-grade hit Black Pony.” She didn’t continue the horsey theme, first writing romances for Bantam’s Loveswept line. Her romantic novels included the Quaid Horses series, which have at least an element of horse (not having read…
Gruen, Sara
About the author Sara Gruen is a Canadian, who moved to the United States in 1999 when she got a technical writing job. When she was made redundant, she decided to write fiction. Her first two novels, Riding Lessons and Flying Changes were both about horses, and are both still in print. Her next novel,…
Gray, David
About the author David Gray (1870–1968) was an American author. He wrote two short story collections. Some of the stories are often included in other horsey collections, and have thus become fairly well known. Finding the booksEasy to find, and now available as ebooks. Bibliography (horse books only) Gallops The Century Co, New York, 1898,…
Evans, Nicholas
About the author Nicholas Evans was born in 1950 in Worcestershire. He was educated at Oxford, and graduated with a first class degree in law. He worked as a journalist for three years on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, and then moved into television and film production. In 1993 he was told about horse whisperers by…