Category: North American Authors
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Duey, Kathleen
About the author Kathleen Duey (1950–2020) is a prolific American author. Many of her earlier works are historical, with a lengthy series of 19 titles in diary form. Called American Diaries, it’s American history told through the eyes of girls writing diaries as they experience the events. It’s a wide-ranging series, stretching from Massachusetts in…
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Asch, Frank
About the author Frank Asch (b.1946) is an American author and illustrator of books for the younger reader. He was born in New Jersey, and studied art at Cooper Union. He wrote his first book in his early twenties as a way of earning some extra money, but writing and illustrating have become his full…
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Rounds, Glen
About the author Glen Rounds (1906–2002) was an American author and illustrator. When he was one, he and his family moved in a covered wagon from South Dakota to Montana. He grew up on a ranch, drawing everything he saw, and went to the Kansas City Art Institute from 1926–27. After arriving in New York…
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Chaffee, Allen
About the author Allen Chaffee adapted several children’s classics, including Hiawatha, Bambi’s Children and The Wizard of Oz. Chaffee’s own fiction included several books on animals, as well as two pony books about Wandy the Dartmoor pony, both fairly conventional pony biographies. Finding the booksBoth are easy to find. Wandy Wins tends to be the…
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St John, Chris
About the author Chris St John is a pseudonym. The Blue Ribbon series was printed in the late 1980s, and is about teenagers Kate, Dara and Jessie and their fight to rise through the ranks. Finding the booksAll the books in the series are easy to find, particularly in the US. Some titles are harder…
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Dean, Annabel
Anabel Dean is one of those authors about whom biographical information is difficult to find. She wrote a number of children’s books, amongst which were a picture book which I think was horsey (I can’t find a picture to check), and a six-book series which followed the fortunes of Mary Majors. Mary longed for a…
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Szymanski, Lois
About the author Lois Szymanski was born in Maryland: one of seven, and a twin. Her favourite book was Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague. It was a formative read. Not only did it inspire her to get her own pony, the ponies of Chincoteague and Assateague have galloped through many of her books. The family…
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Taylor, Pat Eytcheson
About the author Pat Eytcheson Taylor has written two books on horses, both about a quarter horse called Catch a Winner. She has also written on her Christian faith. Finding the booksBoth books are easy to find, and are now back in print again. Links and sourcesThank you to Lisa Catz for photographs and summaries…