Category: North American Authors
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Fall, Thomas
About the author Thomas Fall, who was descended from Cherokee Indians, grew up in Oklahoma. His mother grew up in an Indian mission, and she told Thomas much about what life was like in the Indian territory before Oklahoma statehood. Besides this, a particular interest of his was wild horse legends in the United States.…
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Faralla, Dana
About the author Dana Faralla wrote several children’s books, but as far as I know, only these two horse books. Black Renegade is the sequel to Magnificent Barb. The following biographical snipped comes from the dustjacket of Black Renegade.“Dana Faralla was born in Minnesota of Danish, French and German ancestry and was graduated from the drama…
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Farley, Steven
About the author Steven Farley has carried on where his father, Walter Farley, left off. He completed the last of the Black Stallion series (The Young Black Stallion) with his father, and has since written three more titles in the Black Stallion series. He has also produced a spin off series: The Young Black Stallion.…
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Forster, Logan
About the author Logan Forster was a horseman, but also wrote of Native American culture. He wrote one series, with the main character an Apache teenage boy, Ponce, and one standalone book, about a white teenage runaway boy, called Run Fast, Run Far. All of the books feature racing in some form, though the track is…
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Foster, John T
About the author John T Foster worked as a newspaper reporter, and as a technical editor for the New York Ocean Science Laboratory in Montauk, New York. He wrote several books for children, including the Marco series, but just one horse book: The Gallant Gray Trotter. Finding the bookGallant Gray Trotter was not published in…
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Gates, Doris
About the author Doris Gates (1901–87) wrote many children’s books, and is best known for her book Blue Willow, which won the Newbery Honor Medal. She said: All great fiction has an underlying theme concerned with a moral crisis. I think every one of my books does. There isn’t any other excuse for writing a…
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Hall, Esther Greenacre
About the author Esther Greenacre Hall spent her early years on a Colorado cattle ranch, which formed the background of two of her books. She wrote seven novels for older girls, which often featured young women and their careers, an unusual subject for the 1930s. Her Haverhill Herald sees the heroine taking over the running…
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Hightower, Florence
About the author Florence Hightower wrote six children’s books, all loosely based on her life. One was a horse book, describing the exploits of Maggie Armistead as she battles with her family’s chronic shortage of money. Whether Florence Hightower ever experienced the Depression as sharply as Maggie I don’t know; she was born in Boston,…
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Holland, Marion
About the author Marion Holland was born in Washington, D C, and settled in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She had five children (one of whom was Barbara Holland), who provided inspiration for her Billy and Fats stories. Their house was full of horse books, though she never thought she would write one herself. However, “I got…
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Holland, Barbara
About the author Barbara Holland (1933–2010) lived, when she wrote The Pony Problem, in a Pennsylvania town that is “a kind of children’s dream-world, where all girls have ponies” – including her own daughter, on whose experiences she based the book. “My daughter’s pony was such a frightful pest, getting into the house, trampling the…