Category: North American Authors
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Riggs, Ida Berry
About the author Ida Berry Riggs is an author about whom remarkably little information is available. She wrote just one book, as far as I know, though she may of course have written under other names. Her one book is a ranch story, though one to which time has not been kind. Breaking a two-year-old…
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Reynolds, Butch
About the author Butch Reynolds ran away at the age of fourteen to join the circus. He was a circus clown, and Broken Hearted Clown (1954) is the story of his time in the circus. He wrote two children’s stories of circus life: Green Canvas and Sawdust (1950) and Gem, the Life of a Wild…
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Rawlins, Jennie Brown
About the author Jennie Brown Rawlins (1910–2003) was an Idaho-based author who started writing once her children, Barbara and Lane, were teenagers and she had more time to herself. She was named Idaho’s Writer of the Year for three years, and wrote for adults as well as for children. Her best known book, High Button…
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Oakley, Helen
About the author Helen Oakley wrote four horse books, as far as I know. I am very short of biographical information on this author, so if anyone can supply anything I would be very grateful. Finding the booksAll the books are reasonably easy to find. None were published in the UK. Links and sourcesTerri A.…
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O’Connell, Alice Louise
About the author Alice Louise O’Connell (b.1907) wrote two horse books about Pamela, and her mare, Frosty Morning. Both titles are stratospherically expensive when compared with the average horse book: as far as I can tell, neither was reprinted. Both are lavishly illustrated by Paul Brown, with double page illustrations. The Paul Brown factor usually…
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O’Dell, Scott
About the author Scott O’Dell (1898–1989) was born in Los Angeles. He described the town as it was when he was born: “it was still a frontier town, with more horses than automobiles.” The family moved frequently, but never far from Los Angeles. O’Dell’s best known book, Island of the Blue Dolphins, was based partially…
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Pace, Miriam
About the author Miriam Pace writes romantic novels. This one, from early in her career, is billed as an “Avalon Career Romance”. As far as I know, it’s the only horse story she’s written, and I assume that it’s aimed at adults. Miriam Pace has now moved on, and is, with the author Jackie Hamilton,…
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Patton, Don
About the author Don Patton (b.1892) wrote, as far as I am aware, just the one book. It is about the strangely named wild horse Brown Jug. Finding the bookThe book is easy to find in the USA, as it is under its UK titling, Brown Jug. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an…
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Philbrick, Rodman
About the author Rodman Philbrick (b.1951) was born in Boston. He has written since the age of sixteen, and has published books for both children and adults. His first children’s novel, Freak the Mighty (1993), was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. He has written one Young Adult horse novel, The Fire Pony,…
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Pinkwater, Jill
About the author Jill Pinkwater (1941–2022) illustrated many books, particularly her husband Daniel’s. She wrote several books herself, of which Cloud Horse was the only book about horses, though despite her career in illustration, she didn’t do the pictures for this book. The story was based on real-life experiences; particularly on Derry, an Icelandic mare,…