Category: North American Authors
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
About the author Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927–2014) had sorted out her priorities by an early age. Of her earliest memories, she said “I see most vividly animals and games and books. People are there, too, my mother and father and older sister, but in those earliest memories they are much less distinct.” Zilpha’s father had…
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Silliman, Leland
About the author Leland Silliman was born in New York. He was a swimming coach, and during World War II, was involved with the Navy’s swimming programme. He wrote several children’s books, amongst which the best known book was probably The Scrapper, about summer camp life. He wrote two horse books, about the palomino Golden…
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Meyers, Gertrude Barlow
About the author Gertrude Barlow Meyers (b.1902) wrote several children’s books – probably best known among them is her contribution to the Annette series, Annette, Mystery at Medicine Wheel. Her other horse books are in the Western ranch style. Finding the booksBoth books are reasonably easy to find. The Blue Runner tends to be more…
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Myers, MaryAnn
About the author MaryAnn Myers and her husband run the Sunrise Horse Farm in Ohio. Run on organic and sustainable lines, it is an equine retirement sanctuary. She has written seven horse stories so far, and a collection of short stories, with presumably more to come! Finding the booksEasy to find. All, if not most,…
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Millard, Nicky
About the author Nicky Millard is one of those authors who is tantalisingly elusive; the only fact I have been able to find out about her (or him) is that they are Canadian. Finding the bookVery easy to find in the USA. It was not published in the UK. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse…
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Moeri, Louise
About the author Louise Moeri (b.1924) was born in Oregon, and grew up during the Great Depression. When she was two, the family moved back to the family ranch, though this was now dry and unproductive, not the green place her grandfather had first homesteaded. When her father didn’t need the horse, she and her…
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Muller, Dan
About the author Dan Muller (alias Daniel Cody Muller 1889–1976) portrayed the American West. He is best known as an artist. Born in Montana, he said that he was adopted by Buffalo Bill Cody; an assertion which has not yet been proved one way or the other. He sold his early paintings to tourists in…
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Murphy, Bud
About the author Bud Murphy is one of those elusive authors about whom I’ve been able to find out little. I have only been able to find one book written by the author under this name, the horse book Wild Stallion. Finding the bookEasy to find in the USA; it was not published in the…