Category: North American Authors
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Franklin, George Cory
About the author George Cory Franklin (b.1872) wrote several children’s books, including a pair about Monte, stories about a real grizzly bear tamed, who would imitate his owner. Franklin wrote four horse books, as far as I am aware, all of which appear to be ranch stories. Finding the booksAll titles are reasonably easy to…
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Free, Ann Cottrell
About the author Ann Cottrell Free (1916–2004) was an author, journalist and poet; a phenomenal woman, she was a pioneering journalist, who raised public awareness of animal suffering and environmental damage. Born in Richmond, she was educated at Barnard College. In 1936, while still at college, she started work on the Richmond Times Dispatch. She…
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Francis, Dorothy Brenner
About the author Dorothy Brenner Francis, who also writes as Dorothy Francis, grew up in Kansas, and studied at the University of Kansas, from where she graduated with a degree in music. She taught music, and continued to teach after she, her husband Richard and their daughters, moved to Iowa. Having had her first adult…
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Frost, Frances
About the author Frances Frost (1905–59) was educated at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont. She wrote several volumes of poetry (and was the mother of the poet Paul Blackburn). Although she won prizes for her poetry (The Yale Prize for her early poems; the Golden Rose Award of the New England Poetry Club…
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Gale, Martin
About the author Martin Gale was a pseudonym used by Barbara van Doren, who also wrote under the name Barbara Klaw. The books she wrote as Martin Gale are aimed at younger children. Finding the bookThe book is not hugely easy to find in the USA. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated…
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Gard, Robert E
About the author Robert E Gard (1910–92) had a distinguished academic career. He was educated at the Universities of Kansas and Cornell, and taught play writing at both these universities. He became a fellow of the Rockerfeller Foundation, founded the Alberta Folklore and Local History Project, and in 1945, joined the University of Wisconsin. There…
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Garst, Shannon
About the author Doris Shannon Garst (1894–1981) was born in Michigan, and taught before turning to writing full time. She specialised in writing western-themed books. Her full name was Doris Shannon Garst: she used the last parts of her name as her publisher thought no one would buy Western books by a woman. It is…
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Gauss, C W and M
About the author Marianne Gauss (b.1885) wrote books aimed at young children, which were illustrated by CW Gauss, who must have been a relation. Some of the books the pair wrote are due to be available as ebooks. Finding the booksCan sometimes by tricky, but are generally reasonably priced when they do turn up. The…
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Gilbert, Joan
About the author Joan Sewell Gilbert is an author about whom I’ve not yet been able to turn up any information, which is a surprise, as her most recent horse book, Holiday Horses, was only published in 2007. Missouri Horses, and Mule Boy I think are non-fiction, but I’ve included them because Missouri Horses looks…
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Gilligan, Edmund
About the author Edmund Gilligan (b.1899) was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, was educated at Harvard University. He served in the United States Navy during World War I. He was for many years rod and gun editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and wrote many short stories for national magazines, as well as several books…