Category: North American Authors
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Keehn, Sally M
About the author Sally M Keehn (b.1947) was born in London, but grew up in Maryland in the United States. She worked for some years as a Young Adult Librarian, and after moving to Pennsylvania, wrote a travel book on the area with her husband David. Two stories in particular haunted her, and these, in…
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Kennedy, Richard
About the author Richard Kennedy (b.1932) has written over 20 books for children, many of which employ elements of mythology and folklore as they weave their tales of the pursuit of love, and its redemptive power. Song of the Horse is the story of the love between a girl and a horse; it’s a book…
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Kent, Deborah
About the author Deborah Kent (b.1948) grew up in Little Falls, New Jersey. After 8th grade, she was educated in a mainstream school, having previously been taught in classes for blind children, as she is totally blind. Her experiences adapting to a mainstream school formed the basis for her first young adult story, Belonging, and…
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Kincaid, Beth
About the author Beth Kincaid is a pseudonym used by the authors K A Applegate and Michael Grant to write a short horse series aimed at teenagers. The authors have written under other pseudonyms including Katherine Kendall, L E Blair, Pat Pollari, A R Plumb, and Nicholas Stephens, but their most famous creation by far…
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Knott, M O’Malley
About the author This is a work of non-fiction, included in this website because it is illustrated by Paul Brown. Gone Away with O’Malley is a vet’s recollections of his seventy years with horses. Middleton O Malley Knott was born in Castlebar, Ireland, and was started on donkeys by his father, a doctor. Against his…
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Krementz, Jill
About the author I’ve included Jill Krementz’ A Very Young Rider as although it is not fiction, it’s a book that’s remembered with enormous fondness by its American readers, and was an essential part of their literary childhood. This is the story, told in photographs, of 10-year-old Vivi Malloy and her pony. Vivi was a…
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Lang, Don
About the author Don Lang wrote several animal stories for children, amongst which was one horse story, Strawberry Roan. It was published in Grosset & Dunlap’s Famous Horse series. Finding the bookThe book is easy to find in the USA. It was not published in the UK. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an…
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Larom, Henry V
About the author Henry V Larom (1903–75) was a Wyoming based author, who wrote the Mountain Pony series about Andy and his horse Sunny. The series was set on a dude ranch in Wyoming. It was reprinted in its entirety as part of Grosset & Dunlap’s Famous Horse series. There is a Henry V Larom…
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Lathrop, Dorothy P
About the author Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (1891–1990) was an American author and illustrator, born in New York. Her mother was a professional artist, and Dorothy went on to study art at Teachers College, Columbia University, going on to teach art. Her main love had always been producing her own work, and she left teaching to…
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de Leeuw, Adèle
About the author Adèle de Leeuw (1899–1988) was born in Hamilton, Ohio. She was a prolific writer who produced more than 75 children’s books; some in collaboration with her younger sister, Cateau de Leeuw. As children, the sisters produced magazines they both wrote and illustrated. Adèle’s literary career started after she conducted storytelling sessions for…