Category: North American Authors
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Smith, Marya
About the author Marya Smith grew up in New York State, and was educated at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature. She lectured there, and now works as a freelance writer. She has published two young adult novels, Winter-Broken and Across the Creek. She rides, and the dustjacket of Winter-Broken describes her as riding…
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Springer, Nancy
About the author Nancy Springer has written several very well received science fiction and fantasy series, and has also written seven horse books. Her horse books tend to be rite-of-passage stories; a teenager is confronted with an extremely difficult situation, and with the aid of a horse, manages if not to overcome it, at least…
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Stanton, Mary
About the author Mary Stanton (b.1947) was brought up in Hawaii and educated at the University of Minnesota. She started working as a copywriter in the 1980s, opening her own marketing communications company later in the decade. She sold that company in 1994 to concentrate full time on writing. She lives in New York, with…
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Ryden, Hope
About the author Hope Ryden is a naturalist, photographer and writer, with a particular interest in America’s wildlife. This includes its wild horses, and she has written (and illustrated): Wild Colt – the Life of a Young Mustang (1972), Mustangs – a Return to the Wild (1972), America’s Last Wild Horses (1978) and Wild Horses…
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St Pierre, Paul
About the author Paul St. Pierre (b.1923) was a columnist for the Vancouver Sun, but his columns dealt mostly with rural issues, and his passionate love for British Columbia and its remote ranches. He was an MP for Coast-Chilcotin, where his Boss of the Namko Drive was set. He wrote a television script, How to…
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Self, Margaret Cabell
About the author Margaret Cabell Self (1902–96) was a prolific author. Most of her books were non fiction, and fictionalisation of true stories. It may well be I haven’t included some horse titles which should be in here; please let me know if I’ve missed something. Margaret Cabell Self wrote around 40 books on training…
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Starr, John Calvin
About the author John Calvin Starr (b.1892) worked in banking, fruit growing and property development, and started his writing career with two books on business. They were both a success, and coincided with a long convalescence after illness. Whether it was the illness or the success of his books, he became obsessed with the idea…
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Tavo, Gus
About the author Gus Tavo was a pseudonym used by Gus Ivan (Gustave Ivan). He wrote several children’s books; all set in wild America, about buffalo, grizzly bear and the mountain lion. He wrote one horse book, Ride the Pale Stallion. Finding the bookReasonably easy to find. It was not published in the UK. Links…
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Thayer, Geraldine
About the author Geraldine Thayer is a pseudonym used by Dorothy Daniels (b.1915) a prolific writer of romantic mysteries, which if the one below is anything to go by, tended to the Gothic. The Dark Rider is an adult romance. Finding the bookVery easy to find in both paperback and hardback incarnations. It wasn’t published…
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Thompson, Jean
About the author Jean Thompson (b.1933) wrote several children’s books, of which one was a horse book. Finding the bookVery easy indeed to find in America; it was not published in the UK. Links and sourcesMany thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph. Bibliography (horse books only) Ghost Horse of the Palisades William Morrow,…