Category: North American Authors
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Ellis, Melvin Richard (Mel Ellis)
About the author Mel Ellis (1912–84) also wrote under the name Melvin Richard Ellis, though the majority of his books were written as Mel Ellis. The Wild Horse Killers was filmed as Wild Horse Hank in 1979, starring a young Linda Blair (later to win fame as the heroine of The Exorcist). Mel Ellis wrote…
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Ellis, Ella Thorp
About the author Ella Thorp Ellis (1928–2013) was brought up in California. After her parents separated, she lived with various friends and relatives and both parents. As a teenager, she caught tuberculosis, and had more than enough time to sit and dream. She had, she said, “little to do but read and dream eighteen hours…
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Emshwiller, Carol
About the author Carol Emshwiller (b.1921) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but spent her childhood yo-yoing between France and America. As a result, she still finds spelling difficult, and even at university, was resistant to the very idea of literature. It was science fiction that drew her into writing. She and her husband, Ed…
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Erickson, Phoebe
About the author Phoebe Erickson wrote and illustrated children’s books. Many of them were about animals, and she also illustrated an adaptation of Black Beauty, adapted (and much shortened) by Eleanor Graham Vance for Random House in 1949. Born in 1907 in North Bay, Wisconsin, Erickson grew up on a farm and was educated at…
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Clinton, Cathryn
About the author Cathryn Clinton writes YA books in which her protagonists are faced with dramatic challenges. Her one horse book, Simeon’s Fire, features an Amish boy struggling between telling the truth and protecting his family. Her other works include The Calling and A Stone in My Hand, about a Palestinian girl in Gaza whose…
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Colver, Anne
About the author Anne Colver (1908–91) was an Ohio-based author, probably best known for her children’s books about Abraham Lincoln. She was the great niece of Archibald Willard, about whom she wrote a book called Yankee Doodle Painter. Amongst her books are three titles which are horse books (though there may well be more –…
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Conant, Jan Royce
About the author Jan Royce Conant was born in Boston, Massachusetts. An animal behaviourist and judge, as well as an artist, she has illustrated seven books, including her own Half Pint and Children of Light. Jan Royce Conant studied at Milton Academy, the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Cincinnati Art…
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Corcoran, Barbara
About the author Barbara Corcoran (b.1911) also wrote under the names Paige Dixon and Gail Hamilton. An only child, she began writing to amuse herself, writing stories on her doctor father’s prescription pads. She was educated at Wellesley College, and started her literary career writing plays. It was as an author of books for the…
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Crompton, Anne Elliott
About the author Anne Elliot Crompton has written numerous children’s books, amongst which are these four horse books. Two are about Alice Brown, who is walked all over by her best friend, until she learns to fight her corner. Finding the booksNone of the books were published in the UK. All are easy to find,…
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Dickerson, Karle
About the author Karle Dickerson has written one book under his own name, The Forgotten Filly, though this is loosely connected to the Joanna Campbell Thoroughbreds series, to which he contributed seven titles. The Thoroughbreds series is nominally by Joanna Campbell, but has been written by a number of authors. Finding the booksAll are easy…