Category: North American Authors
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Brock, Emma L
About the author Emma Lillian Brock (1886–1974) was born on June 11, 1886, in Fort Shaw, Montana. She studied at the University of Minnesota, and at the Minneapolis School of Art. She wrote 36 books, many of which she also illustrated. Her Kristie series is about a mare with a mind of her own. She…
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Briggs, Doug
About the author Doug Briggs is an author about whom I have been able to find out virtually nothing. As far as I know, he has produced this one horse book. He has also written on self protection and the gun laws of Texas. Finding the bookEasy to find. It looks as if there was…
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Brock, Para Lee
About the author Para Lee Brock worked in television and radio, and produced The 4-H Showcase. This programme featured animals of all sorts, but Para Lee Brock’s particular love was horses, which of course feature in Sahani. The book is set in the Smokies, which Para Lee Brock knew well, having hiked and ridden the…
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Brooks, Emily
About the author Emily Brooks is a pseudonym for the authors Penelope Hall and Ann LaFarge. Riding High is a novel aimed at adults, and is set in the 1920s. Finding the bookFindable, but not hugely common. There was a UK printing, but it’s not massively easy to track down. Links and sourcesMany thanks to…
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Brown, Beth
About the author I have not as yet been able to find any reliable information on this author. If anyone can help, please get in touch. Finding the booksAll the books are reasonably easy to find; none were published in the UK. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987Thanks…
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Buyukmihci, Hope Sawyer
About the author Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci died in 2001. She established the Unexpected Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey in 1968. Finding the bookThe book is easy to find in the USA. It was not printed in the UK. Links and sourcesA little biographical information on Read Abstracts Bibliography (horse books only) Hoofmarks J N Townsend,…
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Campbell, Barbara
About the author Barbara Campbell was born in Arkansas. She was a successful journalist, who worked for The New York Times for 13 years, and who was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1969. As far as I know, she has written this single horse book, A Girl Called Bob and a Horse Called Yoki,…
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Chambers, John W
About the author John W Chambers (b.1933) has written several children’s books, which vary from adventure stories ( Fire Island Forfeit) to Siamese cats (Fritzi’s Winter). He has written, as far as I am aware, one horse book, The Colonel and Me. Its heroine, Gussie, loathes the idea of learning to ride. Finding the bookThis…
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Christopher, Matt
About the author Matt Christopher is the American equivalent of Michael Hardcastle; a prolific writer of children’s books based on sport. If you want to read about baseball, Matt Christopher is your man; and indeed if you want to read about the big American sports, he can provide you with a story about it. His…
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Clark, Margaret Goff
About the author Margaret Goff Clark was born on 7th March 1913 in Oklahoma City. She was educated at the State University College, Buffalo, New York, and after graduating, taught for six years. Having started writing when she was seven (at which age she wrote verse) she was a prolific producer of short stories, having…