Category: North American Authors
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Leitch, Adelaide
About the author Canadian author Adelaide Leitch’s books were mostly about her native Canada, but she did write one children’s horse story, The Blue Roan (1971). She is an author about whom I’ve been able to find out remarkably little, so if you can help, do please get in touch. Finding the bookCan be tricky…
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Levin, Betty
About the author Betty Levin is best known for her fantasy stories. She was the only animal lover in her family, and after a visit to a sheep farm at the age of 11, discovered the magic of working collies. After she married, she and her husband Alvin bought a sheep farm, and Betty bred…
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McMeekin, Isabel McLennan
About the author Isabel McLennan McMeekin (1895–1973) wrote several children’s books, most of which were based in the American South. She wrote plays with Dorothy Clark under the pseudonym Clark McMeekin. Probably her best known book is her fictionalisation of the story of Aristides, who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875. Aristides, just over…
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Makerney, Edna Smith
About the author Edna Smith Makerney was born in Texas, and lived there and in Oklahoma most of her life. She was educated at East Texas State University. She worked as a librarian at Seminole High School. She wrote at least one horse book, Cissy’s Texas Pride. Finding the bookEasy to find. Links and sourcesTerri…
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May, Barbara
About the author Barbara May wrote one conventional horse book, Buckle Horse, and a true story told from the point of view of the horse. As far as I am aware, she wrote no other books. She wrote articles and stories for the American, Canadian and British press, though I have not yet been able…
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Meader, Stephen
About the author Stephen Meader (1892–1977) was a popular children’s author, who wrote many adventure stories. His father was a teacher who gave up teaching when Stephen was 12, and worked as a timber cutter, which outdoor life provided rich material for Stephen’s later career. He wrote his first book when he was out of…
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Meek, Colonel S P
About the author Colonel Sterner St Paul Meek (1894–1972), who also wrote under the names Capt S P Meek, Major S P Meek and Sterner St Paul, was a US military chemist. Before turning to writing children’s books, he wrote science fiction, which, despite its popularity, critic Samuel R Delany called “unbelievably bad.” Sterner St…
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Meigs, Elizabeth Bleecker
About the author Elizabeth Bleecker Meigs was born in Pasadena, California, and was descended from old New York families. She was educated at the Notre Dame Convent on Staten Island and the Packer Institute in Brooklyn. She lived in New York. She wrote some historical novels for children (one, Candle in the Sky, was about…
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Melville, Velma Caldwell
About the author Velma Caldwell Melville was an American author active in the last years of the 19th century. She worked as the editor of the children’s and home department of The Practical Farmer (Philadelphia) and The Wisconsin Farmer. She wrote White Dandy, described as a “companion book to Black Beauty.” The Sacred Heart Review…