Category: North American Authors
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Burleson, Elizabeth
About the author Elizabeth Burleson wrote two children’s books set in Texas. The other, Middl’un, appears not to be a horse book, but if anyone knows differently do please let me know. Finding the bookReasonably easy to find, and not expensive. Links and sourcesThanks to Lisa Catz for the summary and picture. Bibliography (horse books…
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Chandler, Ruth Forbes
About the author Ruth Forbes Chandler (1894–1978) is an author about whom, alas I’ve been able to find no biographical information. She appears to have written several children’s books, of which Three Trumpets is a horse story. It’s illustrated by the fine English artist, Charles Keeping. Finding the bookNot many copies about, but they’re not…
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Chase, Mary Ellen
About the author Mary Ellen Chase (1887–1983) was educated at the University of Maine. After gaining her PhD, she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. She wrote literary criticism and bible studies as well as fiction. Much of her fiction was set in Maine. She wrote, as far as I am aware,…
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Cheatham, K Follis
About the author K Follis Cheatham has done much work with children. She’s directed a choir, coached soccer and done writing workshops and volunteer tutoring. She’s also been assistant director for a Prevent High School Dropout program in North Carolina. She’s written several historical books for children, amongst which is this story of a girl…
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Christie, Caroline
About the author Caroline Mabry Christie (b.1887) was born in Albia, Iowa, and was educated at Lake Forest College and the State University of Iowa. She studied journalism at Columbia University, and wrote several children’s books, as well as writing short stories. The Glacier National Park, in which her horse story Silver Heels is set,…
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Clymer, Ted
About the author Ted Clymer (Theodore Clymer, 1927–2004) was an expert on early reading education. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota, where he became a professor of elementary education and educational psychology in 1952. He challenged long-held assumptions about early reading teaching, and his work was devoted to…
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Martin, Patricia Miles
About the author Patricia Miles Martin also wrote under the names Miska Miles, Patricia A Miles, and Jerry Lane. Patricia Miles Martin was born in Kansas, graduated from the University of Wyoming, and worked as a teacher before taking up writing as a career. This happened almost by accident when she tried to enrol for…