Category: North American Authors
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Clapp, Estelle Barnes
About the author Estelle Barnes Clapp wrote just the one horse book: Laurie. Unusually for a book of its age, it tackles the themes of adult illiteracy and drunk driving. Estelle Barnes Clapp was, according to the dustjacket of Laurie: an active believer in family living, and has striven with great success to make LAURIE…
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Collura, Mary Ellen
About the author Mary Ellen Lang Collura (b.1949) is a Canadian author. Her first young adult novel, Winners, was short listed for the Canada Council Award. Mary Ellen Lang Collura grew up in Vancouver, and has worked as a teacher. When she was writing Sunny, she was living in British Columbia. She has written another…
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Cooper, Page
About the author (Anice) Page Cooper (1891–1958) wrote numerous books, but the titles listed below are her horse titles. She was born in Salem, West Virginia, and educated at Ohio Wesleyan University. During World War II, she worked as a war correspondent in the Pacific, and wrote about the life of Navy nurses. After the…
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Dana, Maggie
About the author Maggie Dana wrote the Best Friends series, which she is now re-issuing, and adding to, as the Timber Ridge Riders series. The books have been updated and revised, and are available in ebook format, and as paperbacks. They are well worth seeking out. Maggie Dana has written a well-observed series which goes…
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Davis, Lavinia
About the author Lavinia Riker Davis (1909–61) wrote over 40 books, covering everything from children’s picture books to mystery stories. She also wrote under the name Wendell Farmer, but all her horse books were written as Lavinia R Davis. She was born in New York City, but spent most of her childhood in Red Bank,…
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Houston, Joan
About the author Joan Houston was born in New York City, and spent four of her school years at a boarding school. That boarding school had a dance with a medieval theme, which duly made its appearance in Crofton Meadows. It was not at school that Joan Houston learned to love horses, but Vermont, where…
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Diggs, Lucy
About the author Lucy Diggs has written two horse stories: Everyday Friends and Moon in the Water. Both stories are aimed at teenagers. Finding the booksBoth books are easy and cheap to find. Neither was published in the UK. Links and sources Bibliography (horse books only) Everyday Friends Atheneum, New York, 1986, 256 pp.Troll Communications,…
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Duncombe, Frances
About the author Frances Duncombe based her one horse book on fact; she lived on a farm near Katonah, New York, in an area where horses were part of everyday life. Of the horses mentioned in High Hurdles, Mac, Robin, Golden Boy, Brutus and Bunty are all real horses. Frances Duncombe studied writing under Mabel…
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Eames, Genevieve Torrey
About the author Genevieve Torrey Eames was born in California, and lived in the United States, Paris and London. In the introduction to one of her earliest books, A Horse to Remember, she said: “All my life has been mixed up, somehow, with dogs and horses. So, naturally when I sat down to write a…
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Emery, Anne
About the author Anne Emery was born Anne Eleanor McGuigan in Fargo, North Dakota. She studied at Northwestern University, and then travelled with her family for a year, including a visit to her professor father’s birthplace in Northern Ireland. She also studied for nine months at the University of Grenoble in France. She then started…