Category: North American Authors
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Hinkle, Thomas Clark
About the author Dr Thomas Clark Hinkle (1876–1949) wrote many children’s books featuring animals. He was a reasonably prolific horse book author, with 11 titles to his name, but wrote even more books about dogs – 19 that I have been able to find. There is a certain similarity in plot in his horse books,…
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Hoffman, Eleanor
About the author Eleanor Hoffman was a reasonably prolific author. She was born in Belmont, Massachusetts to achieving parents; her father was Ralph Hoffman, a well known naturalist and ornithologist, author of A Guide to the Birds of New England and Eastern New York (1904), the first field guide to focus on everything necessary to…
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Hinkins, Virginia
About the author Virginia Hinkins was born in Maryland, and was a keen rider as a child. She was educated at the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women, and managed Spengler Hall in Strasburg, Virginia, which was built by her great grandfather. She wrote two books: The Story of Charles Randolph and General Jackson (1959),…
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Grew, David
About the author Many thanks to Christina Wilsdon, who wrote this piece. Beyond Rope and Fence by David GrewDavid Grew’s novel about Queen, a buckskin mare born on the western prairies of Canada, tells the story of her capture, treatment at the hands of humans, and quest for freedom from a distinctly equine point of…
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Greene, Anne Bosworth
About the author Anne Bosworth Green (1878–1961) was born in England, and was a landscape artist, essayist and travel writer. She lived briefly in Tryon, and then in Boston, MA, as well as in Vermont, which provided the material for one of her books The Lone Winter, which describes a winter she spent alone on…
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Gringhuis, Dirk
About the author Dirk Gringhuis (Richard H Gringhuis, 1918–74) wrote and illustrated widely for children. As well as non-fiction historical titles, many set in Michigan, he wrote animal stories, including this one horse book, Saddle the Storm. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and educated at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. As…
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Grossman, Nancy Wright
About the author Nancy Wright Grossman, an amateur historian who wrote The Place Names of Portsmouth, a guide to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has written a four-book series about Dutch Mill Stables. All of the books I think are aimed at the younger reader, being relatively short reads. The series is described thus in the blurb:…
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Gulley, Judie
About the author Judie Gulley, who is based in Iowa, writes books for teenagers, one of which is this one horse book, Rodeo Summer. Rodeo Summer is the story of 15-year-old Janet. An outsider in the family, she is the only one who doesn’t ride. Finding the bookEasy to find in its native America, but…
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Hallowell, Priscilla
About the author Priscilla C Hallowell (1908–98) was a native of New York who wrote children’s books, including Hector Goes Fishing and The Long Nosed Princess. Her one horse book was presumably inspired by her own love of horses; she was a noted horsewoman who hunted regularly in both America and England. She was also…
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Hamilton, Dorothy
About the author Dorothy Hamilton (b.1906) wrote numerous children’s books, including at least one involving horses. I haven’t as yet been able to track down biographical detail on this author. Finding the bookVery easy to find in its native America. It was not published in the UK. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an…