Category: North American Authors
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Brown, Rita Mae
About the author Rita Mae Brown (b.1944) was born almost on the Mason Dixon Line, to a mother who “possessed the best eye for a horse I have ever witnessed.” She was a constant inhabitant of the racetrack, and her children went with her (which apparently would not be allowed now lest they see gambling).…
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Bayliss, Marguerite F
About the author Marguerite F Bayliss (b.1895) wrote Bolinvar, originally published in two volumes, and then reprinted (with, apparently much of the racist material removed) by H Holt & Company. It is the story of a family feud between two branches of the Bolinvar family, which takes the form of an equestrian rivalry across three…
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Banks, Carolyn
About the author Carolyn Banks (b.1941) is an American author. She became known first for her short stories, particularly Growing Up Polish in Pittsburgh, and wrote her first full length novel, Mr Right, in 1979. She has competed in dressage herself, and has written a series of comic mysteries based in the dressage world. She…
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James, Will
About the author Will James (1892–1942) wrote and illustrated 24 horse stories in the first half of the 20th century. He was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in Quebec, Canada in 1892, and was an average student who constantly drew horses and cowboys. He left home to become a cowboy, reinventing himself with several new…
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Bly, Stephen and Janet
About the author Stephen Bly (1944–2011) was an amazingly prolific author of Christian genre fiction. His speciality was Western fiction, for which he won the Christy award 2002 for excellence in Christian Western novels. I have struggled rather finding out which of his oeuvre is specifically horsey: if you like Westerns, then that’s pretty nearly…
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Feld, Ellen
About the author Morgan Horse author Ellen Feld was educated at the University of Massachusetts, where she studied Russian and Soviet and Eastern European Studies. She has worked as a writer on equine subjects for over 20 years, and wrote her first short story, about her horse Blackjack, in 2001. That story became Blackjack –…
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Betancourt, Jeanne
About the author Jeanne Betancourt grew up in Vermont, and dreamed of becoming a dancer. She wrote her first book in 1982, reflecting what was going on in her own life at the time; having a daughter who was in the joint custody of her and her husband. Her books have carried on reflecting her…
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Burkhart, Jessica
About the author Jessica Burkhart (a pseudonym used by Jessica Ashley) is the author of the twenty-book Canterwood Crest series, set in an elite American school with riding on the curriculum. It follows pupils Sasha Silver, and in later books, Lauren Towers, through the ups and downs of their school careers. Jessica’s own school career…
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Chandler, Edna Walker
About the author Edna Walker Chandler (1908–1982) was born in Kansas on a wheat farm. She had a rather fragmented education. She was educated at Friends University, Wichita, but eventually graduated from Sacramento State College in California when she was 50. This didn’t stop her writing career. Once Walker’s children had grown up, she started…