Category: North American Authors
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Bourne, Eulalia
About the author Eulalia Bourne (1895–1984) was born in Arizona, where she spent most of her life. After a sketchy education, she became a teacher, but was fired for dancing the “one step” – a step too far for the time. After graduating from the University of Arizona, which took her ten years as she…
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Bowen, Roberty Sidney (James Robert Richard)
About the author Robert Sidney Bowen (1900–77) also wrote under the name James Robert Richard. He had an incident-packed life; he left school when aged only 14 to drive an ambulance for the French Army in World War One. He survived this experience, and enlisted with the British to fly, having lied about his age,…
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Brand, Max
About the author Max Brand (1892–1944) was one of the pseudonyms, and possibly the best known, used by Frederick Faust. Frederick Faust was educated at the University of California. After succeeding in publishing a few stories, he adopted the name of Max Brand, a neutral name which would not generate the hostility his own German…
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Bradbury, Bianca
About the author Bianca Bradbury (1908–82) lived in Connecticut. She started her writing career with magazines such as Family Circle and McCall’s, and once she had children, she began writing picture books. She graduated to writing books for older readers, and ended her career with over 40 books to her name, ranging from picture books…
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Brooks, David H
About the author David H Brooks has written one novel, Gone Away. The horse content is not central, but the family have horses, hunt and play polo. Finding the bookEasy to find. It was not published in the UK. Links and sourcesMany thanks to Lisa Catz for the picture. Bibliography (horse books only) Gone Away…
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Buff, Mary and Conrad
About the author Mary (1890–1970) and Conrad Buff (1886–1975) produced fourteen books between them. Three of them, Big Tree (1947), The Apple and the Arrow (1952), and Magic Maize (1954), were runners up for the Newbery Medal. Mary Marsh was born in Ohio, and was educated at Bethany College in Kansas. She studied painting in…
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Bunting, Eve
About the author Anne Evelyn Bunting (b.1928) was born in Ireland, to a poetry loving father who read poetry to her from a young age, and a mother who started a library in Maghera, the village where the family lived. They emigrated to America in 1958. After moving to California, Eve took a creative writing…