Category: North American Authors
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Amateau, Gigi
About the author Gigi Amateau was born in Mississippi in 1964, and was educated at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied urban studies and planning. Her first book for young adults was Claiming Georgia Tate (2005), and she has written several well received YA novels since. In 2012, she received a Theresa Pollak Prize for…
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
About the author Laurie Halse Anderson (b.1961) was born in Potsdam. She started her writing career as a freelance reporter, but only succeeded in getting books published once she had joined the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. There she found what she called a “supportive critique group”, and she published picture books. Although…
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Andrews, Ned
About the author Ned Andrews is an author about whom I’ve been able to turn up remarkably little. He wrote one horse book, the ranch-based Little Stranger, which received a decent Kirkus review, which commented on its “sentiment without stickiness”. Finding the bookNot impossible to find; slightly easier in its UK printing. Links and sourcesThanks…
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Appel, David
About the author David Appel joined the Philadelphia Enquirer in 1946 as book editor. He started the paper’s book review section, and held regular author lunches. He was a keen student of American history, particularly of George Armstrong Custer, and he wrote an historical novel about the only survivor of Custer’s forces at the Battle…
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Leighton, Margaret
About the author Margaret Leighton wrote historic fiction but just one book that focused on a horse, rather than involving horses by virtue of the time in which the book was set. Her book Comanche is about a real horse, of mixed Mustang/Morgan ancestry. He was ridden by Captain Keogh at the Battle of…
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Armstrong, Luanne
About the author Luanne Armstrong (b.1949) was brought up on the farm her family had lived on for four generations. She has a PhD in Education, and is an adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Annie, which was her first published novel, sprang out of her childhood longing to be…
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Annixter, Jane and Paul
About the author Jane and Paul Annixter were pseudonyms used by husband and wife writing team Jane Levington Comfort (1903–96) and Howard Allison Sturtzel (1894–1985). Both wrote under their own names, but as the Annixters were best known for their children’s books, many of which featured animals and the natural world. Besides their books, they…
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Baber, Lynne
About the author Lynne Baber is a Christian writer who covers faith, family, animals, politics, and society. She runs the Amazing Grays Ministry – sharing faith, sometimes accompanied by a horse… She has now retired as an equine professional, but in 1999 she and her husband began breeding high-end reining and cutting Quarter Horses. She…