Category: North American Authors
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DeLaCroix, Alice
About the author Alice DeLaCroix (b.1940) was educated at Purdue University, and started writing for children when she had a family of her own. She wrote several books about a third grade pupil called Randall, and a horse book about a girl called Abby. Finding the bookEasy to find. The book was not published in…
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Denzel, Justin Francis
About the author Justin Francis Denzel (1917–99) was born in New Jersey. One of his first jobs was to work on Civilian Conservation Corps projects in Alaska, after which he wrote for a paper sponsored by the US Forest Service. During World War II he received the Purple Heart in recognition for the wounds he…
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Eberle, Irmengarde
About the author Irmengarde Eberle (1898–1979) was born in Texas, and came east after she graduated from Texas State Women’s University. She worked as an editor and writer, and as a reviewer of children’s books for the New York Herald Tribune’s book section. Her first children’s book was Picture Stories for Children, and by the…
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Erlanger, Michael
About the author Michael Erlanger, about whom I have as yet been able to find no biographical information, wrote a horse story set in the days when Quarter Horse racing wasn’t exactly run to strict Jockey Club lines. Finding the book:Reasonably easy to find. It was not published in the UK. Links and sourcesThank you…
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Eyre, Katherine Wigmore
About the author Katherine Wigmore Eyre (1901–70) wrote for both adults and children. Her children’s books, at least her horsey titles, are set on ranches. Rosa and Randy is a book I’ve included despite not being entirely certain of its contents. If you can help, I’d be very grateful. Finding the bookReasonably easy to find.…