Category: North American Authors
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Webster, Barbara
About the author Barbara Webster was married to the illustrator Edward Shenton, and was well known as a writer about the countryside. Probably one of her best loved books is Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge, a collection of letters she wrote to Gladys Taber, and which Edward Shenton illustrated. Her one horse book is aimed at adults;…
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Wharton, Virginia
About the author Virginia Wharton wrote two books about Trudy and Flame: The Coming of Flame (1963) and Flame, Son of Silver Cloud (1964). As far as I can see, she wrote no other books. Biographical information on her seems remarkably thin on the ground, so it might well be that Virginia Wharton is a…
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Wojciechowska, Maia
About the author Maia Wojciechowska (1927–2002) was born in Warsaw, and lived in France and England after her family fled Poland in World War II. The family eventually settled in America. Maia Wojciechowska was a friend of Ernest Hemmingway, and herself fought bulls in Mexico, giving her the experience she needed to write her Newbery…
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Whitney, Phyllis Ayame
About the author Phyllis Ayame Whitney (1903–2008) was a prolific romantic novelist, who produced more than 70 novels in her long career. She was born in Yokohama, Japan, where her father represented an American shipping line. Her childhood was also spent in the Philippines and China, until the death of her father, when the family…
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Wright, Gordon
About the author Gordon Wright (1903–90) was an influential American show jumper. In 1962, the National Horse Show held in New York honoured the winners of the Hunter Seat Equitation Championship: over half of them were students, or former students, of Gordon Wright. He trained members of the United States Equestrian Team, as well as…
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Young, Miriam Burt
About the author Miriam Burt Young (1913–74 ) wrote widely for children. Her mother’s upbringing in the San Francisco of the 1880s formed the subject matter of No Place for Mitty, and she wrote about her actor parents in Mother Wore Tights, which became a musical in 1947, starring Betty Grable. Of her children’s books,…
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Zumwalt, Eva
About the author Eva Zumwalt wrote several romances, some of them possibly on the Gothic side. She was born in Eunice, New Mexico, and lived in Artesia. Finding the bookVery easy to find. It was not published in the UK. Links and sourcesA full and excellent review of the book on the Pony Book Chronicles…
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Baker, Elizabeth Gillette
About the author Elizabeth Gillette Baker (b.1923) graduated from Brighton High School, Rochester, New York, in 1941. She wrote the Tammy series, and an historical horse story set at the time of the Chicago fire. Finding the bookReasonably easy to find. Links and sourcesBrighton High SchoolTerri Wear: Horse Stories – An Annotated Bibliography Bibliography (horse…
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Bannon, Laura
About the author Laura Bannon (1895–1963) was born in Acme, Michigan, and studied at the Michigan State Normal School, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where she later taught. In all, she wrote (or illustrated) over twenty books, her first being published in 1939. She received numerous awards, including the Children’s Reading Round Table of…
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Bartlett, Arthur C
About the author Arthur C Bartlett (1901–64) was a man keen on dogs. Although he wrote three horse books, he turned in at least ten children’s dog stories. They are splendidly named: there’s Sergeant Squiffy, Army Dog and Pal, the Story of a Dog Who Lived Up to his Name. His three horse stories aren’t…