Category: North American Authors
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Gray, Patsey
About the author Patsey Gray rode as a child; showing hunters and jumpers and riding in races and rodeos. She won some 500 events, and continued riding after she married Dr Gerald Gray, a plastic surgeon. They lived on a ranch in California, on which they bred Appaloosas. Patsey Gray began writing when she was…
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Clark, Virginia
About the author Virginia Clark was a pseudonym used by Patsey Gray, about whom you can find more information here. Finding the bookThe book is not hugely common, and pricing is variable. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987 Bibliography (horse books only) The Mysterious Buckskin Macmillan, New York,…
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Coffey, Rachel Rivers
About the author Rachel Rivers Coffey was a newspaperwoman and writer. Her father, R C Rivers, owned the Watauga Democrat, a weekly newspaper located in Boone, and Watauga County’s oldest business. Rachel Rivers Coffey and her husband eventually took over the paper. She and her husband were great benefactors; they donated Rivers Park to the…
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Cohen, Peter Zachary
About the author American author Peter Zachary Cohen (b.1931) served in the US Army from 1954–56. He was associate professor of English at Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. He said: I enjoy almost anything connected with the field-and-stream out-of-doors; live on a small farm raising sheep, horses and chickens under fence, coyotes,…
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Collier, JoAnne Chitwood
About the author JoAnne Chitwood Collier, (b.1955) got her first horse when she was 12, for her birthday, and has had horses on and off ever since. When she wrote A Horse Called Mayonnaise, she had a black Morgan mare called Easter, and a Quarter horse mare named Wahkena. She has written a series of…
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Farley, Terri
About the author Terri Farley grew up in California, where she learned to ride. It wasn’t a question of nipping along on her bicycle to the nearest stables. Los Angeles, where she grew up, is deeply unfriendly to the pedestrian, and the only way Terri could get to the stables was to nag her father…
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Estes, Alison
About the author Allison Estes wrote the ten-book Short Stirrup Club series, and also wrote some titles for the lengthy Thoroughbred series. The Thoroughbred series, nominally by Joanna Campbell, had relatively few titles by its creator, with the majority being contributed by other authors. The Short Stirrup Club series is about twins Megan and Max…
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Duncan, Thomas W
About the author Thomas Duncan (1905–87) was born in Casey, Iowa, and succeeded in getting his articles and short stories published whilst still in his teens. He studied at Drake University (pre-law), changing to Harvard, where he studied writing. During his time at Drake University, he travelled during the summer with a Chautauqua theatrical group,…
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du Bose, La Rocque
About the author La Rocque du Bose has written one horse book, Wild Horse, Wild Rider. The author has also written for the Cliff Notes series (study guides) on Cyrano de Bergerac and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Finding the bookThis book is reasonably easy to find in the USA. It was not printed in…
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Easton, Patricia Harrison
About the author Patricia Harrison Easton met her husband when he was her professor at college; Richard Easton, Professor of English asked her out once final grades were in, and they married. She started to write once she had a family of her own, and it took her six years to get published. She grew…