Category: North American Authors
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Tracy, Edward B
About the author Edward B Tracy was born on a farm in Connecticut, and studied mechanical engineering at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. After he left, he worked for four years in the casting shop and rolling and tube mills of a brass company. He later became a sales representative and then the company’s export…
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Tremble, Freda B
About the author Freda B Tremble has written just the one book that I know of. Modoc is aimed at younger readers, and is based to a certain extent on her own experiences. Her heroine in the book, Helen, lives on a ranch which her father had homesteaded. When Freda was three, her parents homesteaded…
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Tularski, Lura
About the author Lura Tularski (b.1905) wrote just one horse book, as far as I am aware. She both wrote and illustrated Star of Stonyridge, and is described on its jacket as an “expert horsewoman”. Finding the bookThe book is reasonably easy to find; though very good copies can be expensive. Links and sourcesThank you…
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Turner, Gerry
About the author Gerry Turner wrote five books, amongst which was the horse book Hide-out for a Horse. Set in New York, it is the story of a girl’s attempt to hide the carriage horse Pie when he no longer has anywhere to live. Finding the bookThe book is easy to find in the USA.…
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Turngren, Annette
About the author Annette Turngren was brought up on a grain and dairy farm in Minnesota. The youngest of nine children, she was the daughter of Swedish parents. As a child, she was a keen writer, and filled many of her father’s ledgers with half-completed novels. Her teachers suggested she become a journalist, but after…
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Van der Veer, Judy
About the author Judy Van der Veer (1912–1982) was born in Pennsylvania. She began writing after she was confined to bed on her parents’ 240 acre ranch in California after she broke her leg. Many of her books, including her poetry and fiction, were about animals and life on the ranch. Her works were well…
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Van Doren, Mark
About the author Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) was a “legendary classroom presence”; a poet, teacher and Pulitzer Prize Winner for his Collected Poems. Columbia College today honours great teachers with the Mark Van Doren Award. Dick and Tom, Tales of Two Ponies was written early in his career, and on publication was inscribed by him…
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van Steenwyk, Elizabeth
About the author Elizabeth van Steenwyk is a prolific author who has written widely for children. As well as horse books, she has written on ice skating (including a biography of Dorothy Hammill) and several children’s history books. She started to write when she was 10, and came home from school convinced she had to…
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Wagner, Sharon
About the author Sharon Wagner (b.1936) is a prolific author. She has written many romantic mysteries for adults, as well as the five horse books listed here. I don’t know the content of all her books, so if anyone can supply details of any additional horse books, I would be very grateful. Three of her…
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Watson, Helen Orr
About the author Helen Orr Watson was married to a military man, Colonel James Tolmie-Watson. and wrote several military-themed animal books. She also wrote many short stories, and taught the art of short story writing in the Philippines, and in Washington DC at YWCA and Southeastern University. She was vice president of the National League…