Category: North American Authors
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Polikoff, Barbara Garland
About the author Barbara Garland Polikoff (1929–2022) wrote biographies and fictional works aimed at teenagers. Her first fictional work, Life’s a Funny Proposition, Horatio, about a boy whose father has died of lung cancer, was very well received, and had a Best Books Citation in the School Library Journal, 1992. Its sequel, Riding the Wind,…
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Pollock, Penny
About the author Penny Pollock has written several children’s books, among them the wonderfully titled Ants Don’t Get Sunday Off. She has written (as far as I know) one horse book. Finding the bookEasy to find in both its printings. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987Many thanks to…
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Priddy, Frances
About the author Frances Priddy wrote nine children’s books, of which three are horse stories. She was born in Decatur, Illinois, and was interested in horses from the time she was given a pony ride at a picnic at the age of two. She has had “every imaginable type of pet, from fish, up through…
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Ranney, Agnes V
About the author Agnes V Ranney, as far as I am aware, has written just the one book, a coming of age story about a half Nez Percé boy, living in Idaho during the troubled times when settlers were moving into the North West. Finding the bookBoth hardback and paperback editions are easy to find,…
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Sellnow, Les
About the author Les Sellnow has written several non fiction horse books, on subjects including lameness, trail riding, mules, and the history of the western horse. He is a regular contributor of articles to The Horse and The Blood Horse. As far as I know, he’s written just the one work of fiction: Tyger, Wild…
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Shannon, Lytle
About the author Lytle Shannon was a pseudonym used by Mary Shannon. Under that pseudonym, she wrote the adult romance The Golden Stallion. Finding the bookVery difficult to find in its first edition, but reasonably easy as the Avalon reprint. Links and sourcesTerri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987Many thanks to Lisa…
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Simner, Janni Lee
About the author Janni Lee Simner is best known for her fantasy novels, and for Bones of Faerie, set in a post-Apocalyptic world after the war between human and Faerie has devastated the world, in particular. She has also written a series of three horse books. These are a mix of conventional horse and fantasy;…
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Singer, Marilyn
About the author Marilyn Singer is a prolific author, with over 90 books to her credit. She writes for children of all ages. She was born in New York in 1948, and educated at Queens College, City University of New York, and Reading University, England. She taught English for several years, and published her first…
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Slade, Michael
About the author Michael Slade is a playwright, and a writer for television. He has written musicals, and also wrote the book accompanying Pokémon Live!, which my son would have thanked him for had he known about it. He was Pokémon obsessed. Michael Slade has won awards for his children’s literature, with his horse book,…
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Smith, Linell Nash
About the author Linell Nash Smith (d.2022) was the daughter of Ogden Nash, the poet. She edited some collections of his poetry, but was an author in her own right, with several children’s books to her name. It seems likely that she was very familiar with the show ring; her book Auction Pony is full…